Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:50:13 +0200 From: "Ross Cameron" <ross.cameron@linuxpro.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? Message-ID: <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:34:50AM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > You are asking the wrong questions: why did GNU write their own version
> > of cmp? FreeBSD's dates to 1987.
>
> Y'know -- that's a really good question.
>
Not really its quite simple,... much like the *BSD camp prefers all their
tools to be BSD licensed, the GNU camp want all their tools to be GPL
licensed.
They have their reason's for wanting to enforce the sharing of code
improvements.
I personally find that for different projects I prefer to use different OSs
as a base, some are GNU/Linux based and others are *BSD based.
Depends on the client and intended roadmap of the project.
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