From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199910122335.BAA00876@appel.flower> To: Jason Haas cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [Announce] Absoft interested in making Fortran compiler -- needs user feedback In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:34:27 CDT." Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:35:42 +0200 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tuesday, 12 October 1999, Jason Haas writes: > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 12 October 1999, Jason Haas writes: > > > > > We have been asked to assist Absoft, makers of the #1 commercial Linux/x8 + 6 > > > Fortran compiler, in determining if there is a market for their product o + n > > > the Linux/PowerPC platform. > > > > What's the licence? It sounds awfully proprietary, and a lot of us > > are not interested at all in proprietary software. > > Note the word commercial. Yes, I did. AbiWord, eg, is commercial too, yet GPL licenced. > > I would very much appreciate it, if non-free announcements were > > prominently marked 'non-free', or 'proprietary'. > > It is commercial software, although not an announcement for it -- it was > an announcement trying to gauge interest in it. Ok. But same thing, I would be interested in another fortran compiler, but not if it would be proprietary. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/ | http://www.lilypond.org/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/