From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 12:18:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397C81065689 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abalour@gmail.com) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55DF8FC2A for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abalour@gmail.com) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id h53so142680hsh.11 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:18:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=CaGx7lPqd7tN49a20aOIM6+py0FgaToBEIu8MIp7LiA=; b=DETn2w0bdrTbsBsBEnI5z4Ytu3/ohnhRYGSrvkmbfjQmpqTdPcKEV9c0NLujVVy6pE g9GlLB6/rFU4uzzYmU/+pbXhYx8Ng5uQ6o6SEnVO7skWItBQZFIRQ3TKXGntpkYHv3SW lJ/B2Q81dV3mRfTW22VJspHT1pYru4fiTvkjk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ohm0CDBss47cbBqkVyncUHz6zyBCozlTcpSlbHx9M8ShfXipmkdSuumLdWzEAO+HMH 8TaXLSR5WGkBUeqwNa0dzypnOlK2hgAKK31FalOYUMR3VGs6TkJhZ+lpWHO+TTGzt5M7 ogUnHPL/QXjo5zLdKqT2B5InjZmwKdyGQMnfM= Received: by 10.65.54.9 with SMTP id g9mr14962813qbk.55.1222343413369; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.186.10 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35f70db10809250450o20a21e82kcef4c72ca58267b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:50:13 +0200 From: "Ross Cameron" Sender: abalour@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3a3a3ec40d3bd733 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ross.cameron@linuxpro.co.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:04 -0000 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chad Perrin 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.