[Announce] Absoft interested in making Fortran compiler -- needs user feedback

[Jason Haas]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> On Tuesday, 12 October 1999, Jason Haas writes:
> 
> > We have been asked to assist Absoft, makers of the #1 commercial Linux/x86
> > Fortran compiler, in determining if there is a market for their product on
> > the Linux/PowerPC platform.
> 
> What's the licence?  It sounds awfully proprietary, and a lot of us
> are not interested at all in proprietary software.

Note the word commercial.
 
> I would very much appreciate it, if non-free announcements were
> prominently marked 'non-free', or 'proprietary'.

It is commercial software, although not an announcement for it -- it was
an announcement trying to gauge interest in it. 

Cheers,

Jason Haas,  jhaas at linuxppc.com
LinuxPPC Inc,  www.linuxppc.com


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