Ramanraj K said on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:06:27AM +0530,:
I actually came across the Microsoft site that offered gcc for it's UNIX tools. I couldn't believe it when I saw it:
They really do not have a choice. *nices require compliance with standards, and gcc's compliance with the standards is the best.
Microsoft uses open source, despite critical stance
(cough, cough) GCC is _Free_ not merely open source.
Ok. I *AM* a free software zealot.
The person i'm trying to convince is a hardcore MS fan so i need real evidence of why BSD is better than MS products in server environments.
So if FreeBSD and Open Source are unworthy replacements for Windows how come all these tools are being sold by them?
Actually, this story is an excellent illustration of why the GNU GPL is better than BSD (the license). If the GCC were under a BSD style free non-copyleft license, customers would have been left holding yet another `extension' in their hands.