intel driver will only compile with gcc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Daniel Stone wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:30:04PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
>>> I remember
>>> the days when "open" meant more than just Linux (or Solaris, whose
>>> owner helps pays the bills).
>>
>> This is the only part of your mail I'm going to bite on.
>>
>> Sun is a sponsor of the X.Org Foundation, like many other companies.
>> Sun's contribution has absolutely no bearing on X.Org as a technical
>> project, nor does it have any bearing on my technical judgement as a
>> contributor in my spare time.
>
> The part of Sun's money that got Solaris to be well supported was in
> the paychecks of people like myself, Stuart, and Deron who were paid to
> participate in and contribute to the open source community.   Some of
> that goes to ensuring things work on Solaris and with Sun compilers,
> and other to general projects that help regardless of OS (like my work
> on the 7.x modularization, and Stuart's time organizing the X.Org
> Developer's Conference).

To anyone else, that's stating that Sun's paying bills and getting some 
results from it.  It's not the same as agreeing with Daniel Stone's 
comment, however you may have intended the remark.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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