Manuel López-Ibáñez writes: > On 23/03/07, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > GCC being vastly a volunteer project, > > Actually, if you monitored gcc-patches and the subversion commits for > a while, you will realise that that statement is factually wrong. Most > of the code comes from individuals that are paid to work in GCC [*] by > Red Hat, Google, Sourceware, Suse, Sony, IBM, etc, as it happens in > the Linux kernel as well.
In which case, the companies concerned, rather than the individuals, are volunteers: they have no contractual obligation to the FSF. Marc Espie's argument stands. Andrew.
