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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Free Intel C++ compiler
From:       Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date:       2004-10-03 17:21:51
Message-ID: 200410031721.51551.frans.englich () telia ! com
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On Sunday 03 October 2004 13:57, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote:
> > Oh please. That Intel C++ doesn't work just as well on AMD is perfectly
> > acceptable marketing practice. What else do you expect ? And if you
> > really want to walk down this path, there are quite a few things more
> > important to worry about than this.
>
> Sure, there are more important things... all in all, we're still free to
> choose and that is, IMHO, one of the foundations of free software. For side
> projects, what's the point in chosing gcc instead of Intel compiler if (1)
> it is faster, (2) it is free and (3) you have an Intel processor?

Because GCC is open source, Intel's is not, and it gains market share by 
having users. As pointed out, Intel have that compiler for usual corporate 
tactics. By not using it, we users can affect the market.

However, above I assumed that open source is good(so yes, it's subjective). 
One can constantly go after what is cheapest and fastest, or acknowledge the 
rights and solid software open source gives. Linux, Apache, KDE and so forth, 
doesn't rock only because there's good developers behind them.

This is off-topic, you should find another forum.


Cheers,

		Frans

 
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