iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[LuKreme]

On 2-Jul-2007, at 03:33, Chad Leigh wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:02 AM, LuKreme wrote:
> gcc works great but does not prove anything.
>
>> Come on, a large portion of all the development done in OSS would  
>> not have even been possible without gcc.
>
> Pure horse hooey.  Something else would have stepped in to takes  
> its place.

And you base this one what, exactly?  there were _NO_ C compilers  
that were freely available before gcc, and no evidence whatsoever  
that there ever would have been.

gcc allowed anyone who wanted to code to write code.  Whether the  
project they were committing code to was ultimately built with gcc or  
something else is irrelevant, gcc made it possible.

And gcc is still the default compiler for most servers running *BSD  
or any Linux variant.

>> Where would we be without gcc?
>
> Probably about the same place we are now more or less I would  
> guess.  Something else would have happened in its place.

Like moon ponies?

>   But it didn't and we use gcc, which is fine.  (This statement  
> assumes that open source would still have developed more or less  
> the way it is now but using someone elses compiler that would have  
> come out -- chances are someone would have released a usable compiler)

That's pure fantasy speculation.

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