Re: on debian-win32 (WAS Re: Is there a Open Source Windows Software Archive?)

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,
>>"Bernhard" == Bernhard Rieder <e9325898@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

 Bernhard> So what does free in this term anyway? Is software that requires
 Bernhard> a non free OS to run really free? 

        Until Linux came along, all GPL'd software ran on non-free
 OS's. In fact, the roots of most long standing GPL'd or otherwise
 DFSG free software (gcc, emacs, bison, flex, sed, Perl, etc) were in
 on fee systems -- all these mentioned were designed, and built, and
 tested on non-free OS's. 

        I still think they were free.

        manoj
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