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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
> I'm kinda fuzzy on the legalities here (as I'm a software 
> developer and not a lawyer), but could a free piece of 
> software exist peacefully with commercial software while
> sharing names?  I can't see how calling the Pentium GNU C 
> Compiler "PGCC" would cause the Portland people to lose 
> any market share.

I can't see how the pgcc [free] compiler could ever conflict with The
Portland Group, Inc.  The pentium optimised compiler has no direct or
indirect interference with The Pentium Group, Inc.

If the Pentium Group, Inc. chooses to be snooty and try to claim these
four letters as theirs, I will look unfavorably upon them and their
products.

I have read their advertisements in the Linux Journal and contemplated
purchases.  If they choose to be unfriendly with the community, I'll take
my business elsewhere.

The Linux community is by far a friendly helping group aimed at
advancement, not people who squabble over an acronym.

Let's keep this a friendly co-existence.  pgcc has been around for a long
time and is not a commercial competetive product.  pgcc is what the
community knows as the pentium optimised compiler.

-d

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