Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:53:22 GMT+0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" <Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grand Unified Unix Message-ID: <2E9776D4395@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com>
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Hmmm. Don't flame me, but every time I see GUU, I read GNU :-}
I like the idea, and I agree 100%, but it seems to me that at least
part of it is already there.
On my machine I keep 2 versions of all major programs I use (i.e.
make, gcc, shells etc.): one for system maintenance (csh, /bin/make
and cc) and one for the rest of my work (bash, gmake and gcc 2.7.2).
Excuse me for thinking that's double work, but I find I work best
with those tools and not the standard system tools, because I know
they are available, in exactly the same form, on any system I
have worked with so far.
Yes, I could learn to use /bin/make, but I know that it won't work
the same on HP-UX and SunOS and Solaris and Linux. Gmake will.
... hmmm ...
I guess I will be bombarded with this GPL stuff now, and I don't have
it here. Is there anything in this GPL that keeps a major company
from actually _using_ gmake and bash? Or, if they publish a chunk of
source, expect the recipient to have GNU tools available?-------------------------------------------v-
Kees Jan Koster tel. NL-24-3555870
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