Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:41:35 EST
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT ctron DOT com>
To: turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3

>Given that somebody (Alan E., I think it was) made the paranoid
>suggestion that this is all a plot by RMS to make it impossible to
>support Messy-DOG (sic) versions of GCC, maybe what we need to do is
>write an AWK/Perl script to do it on the entire GCC distribution.
>Then RMS's plot will fail, since we'll be ready the next time :->

RMS isn't against MS-DOS.  In fact, he's been quite helpful getting my
changes into the official sources and plans on hopefully continuing to
add MS-DOS support.  Basically, it's another huge market that FSF can
claim a stake in.  However, nobody at FSF is either willing or capable
of providing the diffs required to maintain support, as they are busy
supporting other machines.  Unofficially, I'm the one who supports the
MS-DOS portion of the FSF software, for those parts that have been
ported.  How would you feel if you had to personally support the
scores of platforms that gcc runs on?