From: Eli Z. <el...@gn...> - 2013-03-17 19:15:53
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> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:00:51 -0600 > From: "John E. / TDM" <td...@td...> > > On 3/17/2013 9:26 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > If we're afraid to offer those humongous giganormous tyrannosaurmous > > tar files from the same place then why use GPL software at all? > > Because it's better than the alternatives. Against all odds, MinGW/GCC > is a better free-as-in-beer Microsoft Windows development platform than > its few alternatives, for a not-insignificant percentage of Windows > developers. For the record, I'm not in that camp. For me, MinGW is a free-as-in-speech development platform. Still, software engineering is about doing the minimum that does the job, so if providing a 80MB tarball can be avoided, I'll do that. |