> But the problem with ordering based on contributions is that people
> will then fight over whether company A or company B has contributed
> more; also, people who do their homework will know about, say,
> CodeSourcery's role in GCC even if we sort the list by alphabetical
> order. I'd rather avo
Joe Buck wrote:
> I suggest killing the file; we could later establish a consultants web
> page for gcc.gnu.org but we could treat that as a separate issue.
I suggest killing the file as well.
I'm certainly honored that CodeSourcery is being used as an example of a
company that works on GCC in t
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:03:19AM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Also the world of GCC has change considerably since the SERVICE file was
> conceived.
>
> Most people looking for support have access to an Internet search engine
> that will probably yield results as good or better than could be
>
Joe Buck wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:53:04PM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
On 29/11/2007, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, that's an area that the FSF wants tight control over;
they would be especially cheesed off if we linked to a consultant's page
and the consultan
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:53:04PM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, that's an area that the FSF wants tight control over;
> > they would be especially cheesed off if we linked to a consultant's page
> > and the consultant
On 29/11/2007, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, that's an area that the FSF wants tight control over;
> they would be especially cheesed off if we linked to a consultant's page
> and the consultant also advertised his/her ability to support proprietary
> compiler development.
On Nov 29, 2007 11:13 PM, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:08:26AM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> > On 29/11/2007, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Actually, I wanted to provide some examples, but I couldn't easily
> > > > find a list of compani
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:08:26AM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Actually, I wanted to provide some examples, but I couldn't easily
> > > find a list of companies providing commercial support for GCC.
> > > Shouldn't we have such a
On 29/11/2007, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually, I wanted to provide some examples, but I couldn't easily
> > find a list of companies providing commercial support for GCC.
> > Shouldn't we have such a list in the website in a prominent place?
>
> This is explained in the gcc/SE
