[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

Linc Fessenden linc at thelinuxlink.net
Sun Apr 20 18:24:25 CDT 2003


On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > No, but it makes them nothing without it.
> 
>    Well, it means they'd have to go back to pcc. ;)  The fact that GNU's 
> compiler is used to generate the binaries does not make it a GNU 
> product.  To follow your logic to the next level, running NetBSD on a 
> SPARC processor makes it a Sun product, or placing that machine on a 
> floor which I washed with Mop-n-Glo would make it a Johnson Wax product.
> 
>            -Dave

I didn't say that - I am just hinting at the fact that the compiler is a
pretty integral part of the system....  Well, most systems anyhow.

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-Linc Fessenden

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