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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:26:54 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Yerrick on Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:37:03 GMT)
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.

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.

>and, with more than a million lines of source code, the Watcom

Oh, and GNUpro is about *ten* million lines of code.

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