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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by hga on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:43AM (#9027773)
Really???

The AT&T lawsuit and the end of DARPA BSD funding and that research group at UCB didn't have a lot to do with that? That was several years after Sun got in bed with AT&T and announced that BSD based SunOS was doomed.

I don't know, but I wonder.

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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by davidw on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:49AM (#9027827)
There are lots of factors, and you can't exactly rerun the experiment a number of times, tweaking all of them.

There's also the fact that the internet was far less available in that day and age, making it more difficult to get good people involved.

I don't think it's a big risk, but like I said, I don't think it's impossible either.

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