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From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:51:49 -0500
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>,
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On Thursday 26 June 2003 13:40, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > That's probably a good enough test case.  Explain to me how your
> > > support contracts are ever going to provide enough money to redo GCC or
> > > build something equally substantial.
> >
> > [incremental changes given as example]
>
> Incremental changes != redo.  Redo is a ~$10M project.


	The Los Alamos National Laboratory have sponsored the work for a new
	hand-crafted recursive-descent C++ parser for GCC.

	Apple contributed a precompiled header implementation for GCC.

Both of these are comple rewrites. Not incremental changes.

Claiming these are "incremental" is like claiming Linux is an incremental 
change to the AT&T Kernel...
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