From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030901091036.GA22657@linux_rln.harvest> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829112004.GO614@emcb.co.uk>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:20:04PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Where I was working at the time, they we're afraid of "free software". Some
> people, eh?
Actually, that kind of fear is probably more common that you thingk: where I
work, people are afraid of free software too, for two reasons: licensing ("Am
I obliged to liberate my software because I use grep in one of the setup
scripts?") and quality assurance ("At least there's a big company behind it
that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..")
The fact that the quality of FSF software such as gcc is often a lot better
than the Microsoft-equivalent (MSVC) doesn't seem to bother them much..
rlc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-01 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-26 11:54 Gerrit P. Haase
2003-08-29 10:11 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-08-29 10:40 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2003-08-29 13:30 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-09-01 8:45 ` Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [this message]
2003-09-02 1:47 ` Shankar Unni
2003-09-02 8:23 ` Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
2003-09-02 9:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-03 0:00 ` New OLOCA entry (was Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?) Shankar Unni
2003-09-02 22:49 ` basename(), dirname(), what happened? Andrew DeFaria
2003-09-02 1:59 ` Shankar Unni
2003-09-02 8:51 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-02 22:59 ` Andrew DeFaria
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