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Re:Xcode now costs US$ 4.99 by sigzero on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:01PM (#2306704)
And? Apple never said (as far as I know) that "Xcode will be forever free" and really, are people bitching about $5?
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Re:Xcode now costs US$ 4.99 by masklinn on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:31PM (#2306895)
> are people bitching about $5?

Yes. Because Xcode has been free for 10 years it's taken for granted that Xcode is free, and because OSX's base install does contain any C compilers, it's in the Xcode install.

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Re:Xcode now costs US$ 4.99 by uxp on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @06:20PM (#2307123)
> OSX's base install does contain any C compilers, it's in the Xcode install.

I think you ment to say "Doesn't" instead of does. This nullifies any argument that GCC and the Gnu Toolchain are free to download, if in a year from now the OS you buy doesn't contain GCC in the base install in order to download and compile GCC.

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Re:Xcode now costs US$ 4.99 by jarin on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:07PM (#2307266)
I don't know a ton about gcc internals, but I imagine it probably wouldn't be overly difficult to create an installer that puts a precompiled gcc into /usr/bin.
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