Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-10 06:09, Era Scarecrow wrote:

> I'd prefer to see LLVM used as the back end; mostly based on emerging
> technologies and it's likely a bit cleaner than GNU.

So do I.

> Anyways. If the community wants to buy the rights so we can free it, I
> guess it's just a matter of collecting the money and finding out what
> their price is, and they have to weigh the cost vs current and future
> possible profits. How much would it cost to buy it from them? $100K? $25K?

It would be interesting to get a price from Symantec.

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/Jacob Carlborg