On Jun 15, 2026, David Edelsohn <[email protected]> wrote: > We have conversations on these mailing lists about the use of > other proprietary tools that help with the development and debugging of > Free Software and the GNU Toolchain. We have conversations about SPEC CPU, > Plum Hall, Perennial, Nullstone, etc. We have conversations about building > and debugging the GNU Toolchain with proprietary compilers, assemblers, > linkers, debuggers, C Libraries, Math libraries, SIMD libraries, BLAS > libraries, etc. We have conversations about the GNU Toolchain targeting > proprietary assemblers, linkers, libraries, operating systems, and computer > architectures.
These are all cases of "I and my customer are lusers of Bate, and I want to make GCC work better with Bate". It doesn't invite or push anyone to surrender one's freedom to Bate's supplier. When people engage in advertising and pushing addictive (thus freedom-depriving) drugs on GNU fora, that's an entirely different situation. Let's not pretend they're similar, please. The correct response must be to push back: it's spam, unsolicited advertisement, and it should have been blocked as such; it's also a trap on top of that, because it's SaaSS. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/ Free Software Activist FSFLA co-founder GNU Toolchain Engineer Learn the truth about Richard Stallman at https://stallmansupport.org/
