From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27833 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2004 18:43:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27785 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2004 18:43:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (209.128.65.135) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 16 Nov 2004 18:43:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 10818 invoked by uid 10); 16 Nov 2004 18:43:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 859 invoked by uid 500); 16 Nov 2004 18:43:03 -0000 From: Ian Lance Taylor To: "Dave Korn" Cc: Subject: Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger References: Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:47:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 "Dave Korn" writes: > Hmm, so do you feel that my first para. would have been more near the truth if > it had said that the encouraging/evangelising of OSS in general was only a > *minor* goal of the gnu project, and that providing free tools on non-free > systems was a tactical method rather than strategic goal? I guess I would say that evangelising is a major goal, at least in terms of discussing the benefits of free systems. I agree that free tools on non-free systems is a tactical method. Ian