Public Domain Python

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On 22 Sep 2000 09:15:30 GMT, breiter at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Bernhard
Reiter) wrote:

>In article <39C684E0.8A26BA1 at seebelow.org>,
>	Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> writes:
>> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article <39C1CD8C.DA62C34 at seebelow.org>,
>>>         Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> writes:
>
>> For example, imagine how much better the world would be if Linux were
>> "truly free" instead of perpetually encumbered by that whole nutty
>> copyleft ball-and-chain thing.  Now wouldn't the world be a better
>> place?
>
>No. Linus himself said that putting Linux under GPL was the decisive
>breakthrough for the project.
>
>>>(Try getting a stable C compiler
>>> before, oh python is partly written in C, huh.)
>> 
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "stable", but I've always had very
>> good experiences with all compiler products I've ever used from
>> Microsoft and Borland.  (Less so with Borland.)  I can only think of one
>> instance in about 15 years where any commercial PC compiler I've ever
>> used generated incorrect code.
>
>Well I had problems with all the ones I touched.
>Including compilers from Borland, DEC, MS, Lattice, Sun, ...

Er, you're sure it's the compilers?

phil.

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