rosewater@mailinator.com writes:
> jacob navia wrote:
>> Charlie Gordon wrote:
>> > No, IMHO, you should publish the source, as is done for gcc and lcc.
>> >
>> >> :-)
>> >
>> > Indeed.
>> >
>>
>> Do *you* Charlie?
>>
>> Please let me have all your work for the last 12 years for free!
>> And please give me all the products your company sells for free too.
>>
>> All source code, documentation, etc, so that I can use it without paying
>> you a penny.
>>
>> Of course you will not pay me the money *I paid* for the
>> source of lcc. That is my problem of course, not yours.
>>
>> I remember that you told that you sell compilers. I *can*
>> imagine that having the source code of a compiler could
>> you make some money...
>>
>> But I am sorry, I will sell my product myself.
>
> This sort of despicable selfishness makes me ashamed to share the same
> earth as some people. Who cares if software is a social good, and if
> sharing free software benefits the whole community? To hell with
> everyone else, as long as you can make some money off the back of
> someone else's work developing lcc in the first place! Just sickening.
Did you read Jacob's comments or are you just another "he who shall not
be named" sock puppet?
>
> It's interesting to see the progression from someone making a slightly
> negative comment about lcc-win32, through Navia reacting sourly but
> not abusively, and finally to Navia unleashing an unwarranted torrent
> of abuse against Charlie Gordon, one of the posters to clc who (in
Charlie Gordon was knocking the compiler, Jacob's work and suggesting
that Jacob had a duty to release his work for free. When Charlie Gordon
does the same then maybe, just maybe, CG can dictate to Jacob just how
he should behave.
> stark contrast to Navia) actually knows something about C and is
> willing to other people without always being driven by this
> morbid obsession with money.
Be sure to wash your tongue - there are brown bits on it.
Yet another example of a minority's obsession with Jacob and his work.