From: "Stephen Howe" <SPAMGUARDstephen DOT howe AT dial DOT pipex DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Watcom C++ opened?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:59:53 +0100
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
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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

That was conservative. It is closer to 3 million lines of code. I am not
sure if that includes the non-Intel compilers and tools.

Stephen Howe