Comment Re:gift culture Lebensraum (Score 1) 195
I've been around a long time, and I've never heard that. It has the kind of plausible ring that usually sends me to Snopes, where two thirds of the time I come away chastised for loaning the idea five seconds of credence.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00193.html
From: Joe Buck
To: Emmanuel Fleury
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:41:01 -0800
Subject: Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
> Is there any progress in the gcc-plugin project ?
Non-technical holdups. RMS is worried that this will make it too easy
to integrate proprietary code directly with GCC.
If proponents can come up with good arguments about how the plugin
project can be structured to avoid this risk, that would help.