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From: Dave Blanchard <dave@killthe.net>
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:18:40 EDT
Richard Kenner via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> > Should this question be posed to the Linux distribution that NASA is using?
> 
> Yes, most likely.  But exactly how Free Software fits into the
> Buy America Act (what she's talking about) is less than clear.

If these bureaucratic parasites (but I repeat myself) don't want to use GCC, or Clang, then they can write their own compiler suite from scratch. Doubt that's going to happen, so this "investigation" is simply yet another frivilous waste of taxpayer dollars.

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