From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 18 10: 0:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F72B14BCF for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA15891; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:00:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990318090615.03f77b20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:08:35 -0700 To: Pierre Beyssac , Joseph Scott , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Linux replacing FSF components? In-Reply-To: <19990318123602.A9652@enst.fr> References: <4.1.19990317114100.00cf4ac0@localhost> <4.1.19990317114100.00cf4ac0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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