From:	AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Watcom C++ opened?
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>> >The Open Watcom compiler products are the first and only
>> >mass-market commercial compilers to be open sourced
>> 
>> Wrong.  Cygwin GNUPro.

Is it "mass market?"

>I think they meant proprietary, not commercial.  Obviously they don't
>really understand what they're talking about, so there's not much
>point arguing against them.

Hmmm... you know, that just lowered my opinion of you a bit.  Seemed rather
insulting and unnecessary.

>>and, with more than a million lines of source code, the Watcom
>
>Oh, and GNUpro is about *ten* million lines of code.

"Mine's bigger than yours".  Childish.

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AndrewJ

"Bad idea. I say, use your killfile on this moron." - Kaz Kylheku.

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