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From: hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Message-ID: <1993Apr22.145028.28863@vedge.com>
Date: 22 Apr 93 14:50:28 GMT
References: <1993Apr19.211953.66479@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: Visual Edge Software Ltd.
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slhpv@cc.usu.edu writes:
: compilers, lib's, and windowing wigits.  I'm sure many companies would
: use GCC, etc. if the GPL wasn't so viral.

Some companies DO distribute gcc with their systems.
I presume they also distribute source code and/or have a specisl
licence from GNU or the authors.  They are quite up-front
that they use gcc.  Their cc man page explains that cc just calls
gcc from the FSF.

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