From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/15
Date: 1998-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27lwwrzb2.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 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)
>
Even if part of a piece of software is well-understood, it doesn't
mean that the whole thing is. For instance, for gcc, the front-end
was well defined but the back-end is, well, quite unique. And quite
powerful, too, once you understand it. So the front-end design had a
defined specification but the back end is RMS's own scheme. At least
that's how I understand it, I don't think it was stolen from anywhere.
--
Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org
Work: minyard@nortel.ca UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
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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 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
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
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
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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