> If we reach the point where redhat pulls the cash out from GNU then there's a lot of infrastructure that will be lost. I find it alarming that no one ever see

> If we reach the point where redhat pulls the cash out from GNU then there's a lot of infrastructure that will be lost. I find it alarming that no one ever seems to mention that. IIRC Redhat withdrew funding from FSF after they decided to put RMS back on the board. But AFAICS they haven't reduced funding for developing GNU software. Lets put it this way; RH doesn't contribute to GCC out of the goodness of their hearts, but due to GCC being a critical component of the Linux distro (RHEL) and other similar product support offerings they make their money from. If they drop GCC development, it'll be because something else has replaced GCC and they figure it's better to concentrate their efforts there, or because their business as a whole is going down the drain. For the time being I don't really see either option as particularly likely.