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Emacs & the birth of the GPL
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| Emacs is not so much a text editor, more a
| way of life - an "extensible, customisable
| self-documenting real time display editor"
| with thousands of ready made extensions
| that take you way beyond its original remit
| as a text editor, some of which can be
| found at the Emacs wiki or on the Emacs
| Lisp list.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Emacs-the-birth-of-the-GPL-969471.html
Emacs and the GPL
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| I quite enjoyed seeing how RMS tempered
| prophetic statements with unfortunate real-
| world experience. Consider this insight
| from RMS into why it would be unlikely for
| a commercial entity to produce something
| like Emacs:
|
| I donât think that anything like EMACS
| could have been developed commercially.
| Businesses have the wrong attitudes.
| The primary axiom of the commercial
| world toward users is that they are
| incompetent, and that if they have any
| control over their system they will
| mess it up. The primary goal is to give
| them nothing specific to complain
| about, not to give them a means of
| helping themselves.
|
| Some 23 years later, on the commerically
| amazing debut of the iPad, itâs striking
| how accurate this assessment is!
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/04/emacs-and-the-gpl/
GCC 4.5 Release Candidate Is Finally Here
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| GCC 4.5 has been running a bit behind
| schedule due to outstanding regressions,
| but last week the last of their highest
| severity regressions were addressed, which
| paved the way for a release candidate.
| Today the release candidate for version 4.5
| of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has
| arrived.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEyNg
EPL/GPL Commentary
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| A while ago, we received a request to take
| a look at an open letter on the
| compatibility of the Eclipse Public License
| (EPL) and the GNU General Public License
| (GPL). This led to a number of
| conversations with the Free Software
| Foundation (FSF) on the topic. What we have
| learned and the conclusions that we have
| drawn are outlined below. You can also find
| the FSFâs summary and conclusions on their
| blog.
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http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/mike/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-commentary/
Recent:
GCC 4.5.0 Status Report (2010-03-31), trunk is frozen
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| We have reached the zero P1 GCC 4.5
| regressions required for a release
| candidate build of GCC 4.5.0. To allow
| this state to prevail the trunk is frozen
| for non-documentation changes starting
| April 2nd (use your timezone for your
| advantage). A release candidate will not be
| built before the end of Easter.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-03/msg00477.html
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