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J-P. Rosen <rosen@Adalog.Fr> sent on October 28th, 2010:

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|[..] After all,                                                             |
|FOSS means "free and open source software", so there must be a difference...|
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Conjunction does not require disjunction.

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|whose structure is oriented by the notion of object, which does not         |
|necessarily imply classification and inheritence."                          |
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Agreed.

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|better be called "classification oriented design".                          |
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Did class-based object orientation go out of fashion?

One can use classes without inheritance. Why would "classification
oriented design" necessarily involve inheritance?

Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Collin Paul