Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:22:03 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:40989 On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:40:11 -0400, rickman wrote: > Not intending to rain on anyone's parade, just asking a question. So, you're willing to reign on the people's parade? ... ;-) > Why does the forth community care if the FPGA development tools are > open source? No ... It's not open source that the Forth community wants. It's free. Not "free" as in "free" beer like open-source software, but "free" as in truly free. No cost. No money. No license. No encumbrances. Why? Because, that's the way the Forth community has always done it. Historically, they never copyrighted anything and gave everything they created away for free. You don't have to believe me. Go look for yourself. > Cross-posting to the FPGA group to get some cross-pollination. > Dropped. Not interested in random spewage. Rod Pemberton -- Scientists now say we'll experience a mini-ice in 2030. So, I guess we need more global warming today ...