From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m36545ski1.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NUTMEGtjnfZxzd4tHrl000007d6@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:
> Hmm, so do you feel that my first para. would have been more near the truth if
> it had said that the encouraging/evangelising of OSS in general was only a
> *minor* goal of the gnu project, and that providing free tools on non-free
> systems was a tactical method rather than strategic goal?
I guess I would say that evangelising is a major goal, at least in
terms of discussing the benefits of free systems. I agree that free
tools on non-free systems is a tactical method.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-16 17:14 Andrew Cagney
2004-11-16 17:26 ` Paul Breed
2004-11-16 17:35 ` Kris Warkentin
2004-11-16 20:09 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-16 17:50 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-16 21:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-17 1:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-11-17 1:53 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-17 22:59 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-11-19 5:05 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-19 7:19 ` Kip Macy
2004-11-30 16:26 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-12-07 14:46 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-16 18:11 ` Dave Korn
2004-11-16 18:33 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-16 18:43 ` Dave Korn
2004-11-16 18:47 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2004-11-16 19:59 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-17 0:31 ` Steven Johnson
2004-11-16 19:30 Paul Schlie
2004-11-16 19:51 Paul Schlie
2004-11-16 21:11 ` Paul Breed
2004-11-16 23:58 ` Elena Zannoni
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