On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:43 +0100, A J Stiles wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 19:25, Jose Luis Iguain wrote: > > It is a 64-bit version. They not offer the sources but the rpm's. > > Absence of source code is, in and of itself, an extremely good reason *not* to > install a piece of software. [snip] > This is a > destructive trend that we must resist with everything we have. A 35 year trend that we are resisting by using Debian. This is, after all, a Debian mailing list... > After all, what is in the source code that they do not want us to see? The techniques which Intel compiler writers[1] use to generate code which for a while was always smaller and faster than gcc code. Remember that competition is a Good Thing. If "we" never looked beyond our own community, it would be laughable for us to say that "we" are objectively better than closed-source apps. [1] I think these are people that Intel got when they purchased Alpha from Compaq/DEC. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." Socrates
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