GPL Flaw (Was: Android mythbusters)

[Andrew Lentvorski]

David Brown wrote:

> Unfortunately, most companies don't seem to be willing to pay for
> support for a compiler, especially the gcc front end.  I don't know
> how well CodeSourcery actually does, but I tried in vain to convince
> my company to pay them for support.

I don't know about CodeSourcery, but Cygnus (before being bought by 
RedHat) used to do quite well porting the gcc toolchain to new embedded 
systems or processors.

This seems to be a reasonable market.  CodeSourcery seems to do some of 
it.  IAR systems seems to do it.  There are a couple of others.

-a