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Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

I wish I could think of the right terms to google for the stories I've read about the situation. Hard to find in the piles of results that are just about debugging GCC.

:)

Indexing all human knowledge is great and all, but often worthless when natural language is so ambiguous and overlapping.

I guess just keep it in the back of your mind and if you ever come across an article about the history of GCC debugging development, scan it for this information.

Will do.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

so they deliberately made the debugging output require hooks inside GCC

While I agree that what RMS did was probably unwise (this is the third time I written it), Cafe Alpha said, "(make it) deliberately harder to understand than clang" and "obfuscate (the) code".

I do not see where deliberately hooking debuggers to gcc does what CA claims it does.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

He's taking useful features out ... Only a fanatic would not call that "making software worse"

Ah, but that's not what you wrote in http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6934855&cid=49012347.
Let me refresh your memory, FUD-monger: developers who've said that GCC has been made deliberately harder to understand than clang... Something about wanting to keep the wrong sort of developers out. Freedom to obfuscate your code isn't really freedom of information either.

"Taking useful features out" may -- or may not -- be foolish and unwise, but it does not obfuscate the code, nor make it harder to understand.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

Purposely making worse software is not how you make friends.

Whether or not it is a good/wise idea, I can not judge.

However, only by FUD-mongers and the irrational can "prevent any parts of it from being used together with non-free software" be interpreted as "Purposely making worse software".

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