[IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Robert Withrow <witr at rwwa.com> writes:

> John and others seem to be making the argument 

Only "seem".

> that unless something is technologically similar to GCC (in the way
> it is distributed, developed, and coded) it can't be --- picking a
> term --- open source.  [...]

Not at all.

The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's
really inside an etoys image, except beyond what it itself tells us,
and cannot even be rebuilt from the sources it claims to contain.

Someone else threw out the Thompson compiler hack and GCC as if it
were an answer to this concern.  Instead, it turns out that GCC is on
the other (positive) extreme of bootstrappability.

- FChE