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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.)
Date: 2000/04/26
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Date: 2000-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:34:40 GMT, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>The reason we do not provide the public version on our FTP
>site is that our FTP site is intended to serve SOLELY the
>needs of our commercial customers.  The public versions as I
>have noted are NOT in any sense products of our company, and
>therefore do not belong on the company site.  Note that the
>same is true of much free software, for instance the public
>versions of gcc are not distributed by Cygnus per se.

Um, gcc.gnu.org = egcs.cygnus.com, and that server certainly hosts
an FTP site for the releases and snapshots, and a CVS server with the
latest gcc. 

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org

The hell that is supposedly out there could be no worse than
the hell that is sometimes seen in here.