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Yeah, that objective-c extensions (and objective-c++ even moreso) thing went so well for FSF too. Apple still ships a forked version of GCC (and binutils for th
by durin42 17y ago
Yeah, that objective-c extensions (and objective-c++ even moreso) thing went so well for FSF too. Apple still ships a forked version of GCC (and binutils for that matter) because FSF never actually took all the patches, so I fail to see what good it really did the community, especially now that there's a non-GCC compiler that is open, and has a mainline that supports ObjC.
- lambda 17y agoI know people who write and deploy code in Objective-C on Linux. So while mainline GCC hasn't accepted the patches, keeping the compiler free did help the community. I don't believe that the FSF's tactics are correct in all cases. I think that they could do better about encouraging and not alienating certain developer communities. But software freedom is a very important goal, and they are one of the few groups out there truly dedicated to software freedom.