Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:16:20 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New bind not completely open source... why GPL is not always best Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990918141411.0479bc10@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199909130340.WAA77139@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <Message from "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909122103360.9643-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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At 10:40 PM 9/12/99 -0500, David Kelly wrote: >IMHO there is a big difference between my definition of "Open Source" >and the political agenda behind FSF and GPL. To be open source the >product does not have to be freely redistributable, it simply means you >are given a copy of the source code. One of the earliest examples of >Open Source that I'm familiar with is the monitor PROM in my Apple //e. >I paid all of $10 for the Genuine Apple book containing the assembly >listing. It was quite helpful. In the 80 column text scroll routine it >was quite obvious the author disabled interupts exactly the opposite of >the way documentation said, and his comments said. By the time I >looked, had figured that out for myself. So did I. And this helped me to identify a bug in an associate's BBS software for the Apple //e which had puzzled him for many years. He could not figure out why, when one sent characters to the system very quickly, some would be dropped -- but only now and then. I determined that the problem was that interrupts were off when the screen scrolled -- and the UART only had a one-deep buffer. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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