[Re: Open Source Clean?]

Zuurbier, E. - AMSXE Erik.Zuurbier@KLM.NL
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:18:14 +0100


> OLIVIER LEFEVRE writes:
> 
>>> If Clean is ever to take off commercially, imagine what a potential
>>> compiler distributor would do if he found out that the source code 
>>> of the compiler is public. I would scare away I think.
>> 
>> Who says that language implementors must create business for 
>> compiler distributors? I think the tail is wagging the dog...
>
>Very well said :) There are free compilers for nearly every
>language in existence;

Are the source codes of those compilers also public?

Erik Zuurbier