GB> Recently people said GCC compilers wouldn't be suited to implement 
GB> important/commercial software. I'd like to inform that a rather modern and 
GB> powerfull operating system, namely Mach, is written using GCC. Mach is the 
GB> underlying OS of Steve Job's NextStep, and is commercial in that sense. 

On the contrary, with EMX 0.9a, you now have no licensing
restrictions preventing you from writing commercial programs
and distributing them with no royalties or any other rubbish
like that (provided you don't change any of the EMX stuff).

Have you ever tried to get Borland to fix a bug?  (I have).
You may as well not bother.  With EMX you get the source code
so you can change it yourself if required.  Although that will
then get you into the catch-22 that you are now no longer able
to distribute the executable unless you do BLAH BLAH BLAH.

E.g. that sscanf bug that I posted here recently, I could probably
fix it myself if I was so inclined.  Come to think of it, I suppose
I can do that with Borland too, AND I don't have to do "BLAH BLAH
BLAH" afterwards.  Ok then, I can fix the GNU C compiler if it comes 
to the crunch, but I can't do that with Borland.

BFN.  Paul.
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