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Re: Linux vs. libio
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Linux vs. libio
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:31:00 -0800
- Cc: jlarmour at cygnus dot co dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <19991220152927Y.mitchell@codesourcery.com><638.945735072@upchuck>
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
Jeffrey> That's the chance you and everyone must take when they
Jeffrey> decide to work with free software projects. If you don't
Jeffrey> have the resources to do the merge, then you (in reality)
Jeffrey> under-bid the work by under-estimating the integration
Jeffrey> aspects of the contract.
I don't think discussing these kinds of details on this list is
appropriate. Our business practices are our business, just as Cygnus'
are yours. They've no place here.
Integrating our changes is something we do voluntarily, as a service
to the community -- not because we have to.
I believe the proposal I made in my last email is reasonable, and I
believe it is the one whereby the community comes out the best: we
deliver a working libio and working new ABI, integrated on the
development branch of GCC, and the only cost is some temporary
instability in GCC when using -fnew-abi -- an already unsupported
option.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com