iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Lawrence Sica]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:

> LuKreme says:
>
>> 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 work was started around 1985, and was started using another  
> compiler system for a bootstrap.
>
> I also believe there was a portable C compiler out there during the  
> early 80s that Stallman may or may not have known about.
>

The first compilers were actually free.  The first commercial  
compiler was based on DMR, Dennis Ritchie's compiler IIRC.  PCC was  
the portable compiler you are thinking of I think.  It replaced DMR.


--Larry