From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/19
Date: 1998-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <731eqv$9ff$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m31zn4wr4n.fsf@fred.muc.de
In article <m31zn4wr4n.fsf@fred.muc.de> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:
>Regarding your assertion that big Open Source software always have a fixed
>spec because they're cloning something: good counter examples are GNU emacs
>and PGP (before it went commercial)
Actually, GNU EMACS was a clone of ITS EMACS, though that was also
Open Software (in a sense) and written by the same person.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-19 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-14 0:00 Open-Source and programming style Tom Moran
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
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