Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:08:35 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux replacing FSF components? Message-ID: <4.1.19990318090615.03f77b20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990318123602.A9652@enst.fr> References: <4.1.19990317114100.00cf4ac0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903171226150.7904-100000@sonic.digital-web. net> <4.1.19990317114100.00cf4ac0@localhost>
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At 12:36 PM 3/18/99 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: >It's just a real shame that Tom Christiansen uses completely bogus >statistics to prove his point: % LOC counts in Linux Suse! That's >total nonsense. I'm not so sure. Proponents of the GPL have frequently based arguments on % lines-of-code figures. (Tom's figures are actually based on bytes of source and object code.) >This completely kills his argument: it's not very honest to put >stuff as gcc, gawk or GNU sed on the same level of usefulness as >any other random utility which just happens to be included in Linux >Suse (and God knows there are tons of such stuff). Ah, but then one gets into an endless argument over how much weight each should carry. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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