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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 14:32:10 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <slrn5k7et0.9a7.dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>, David E. Fox wrote:
>In article <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com>, Goatboy wrote:
>
>>>6. Free development tools come standard and are updated for free.
>>
>>I know. Like gcc. But dos has djgpp, which is the same thing, just
>>ported.
>
>But gcc will be on the same CD with every Linux distribution. Dos,
>or NT, users have to go out and find djgcc. If an NT port doesn't
>exist, you're stuck (but that, if not here yet, will soon be, I
>would think.) In addition, the last time I looked at djgcc (just before
>I switched over to 386BSD and later Linux in fall 1992) wasn't
>GPL. It had a rather restrictive license saying if you make any money,
>you owe the djgcc person some money.
There is a cygnus port of gcc to '95 and NT: cygwin32
The license for djgpp changed *long* ago, it's now pure GPL.
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