You see that alot and what is it? for every programmer novice or seasoned, its for sure you will come across open source. Open source is not free. Its just that the code is released to the public. To see if its reusable for your own applications, it will have a license, either Apache or GPL General Public License. Do read the terms before you use them. So what is GCC? It is a group of open compliers that GNU has built for the public. GNU project has been developing this for a long time. Thus you have IBM or Microsoft C, C++ compliers and you have GNU compliers. So why support public? Easy as 1,2,3 … this is because, they will always be there, open to the public, will not cease to be developed due to company crash or other matters. So go GCC. do your bid and help.

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