[Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux
- From: pravi.a@xxxxxxxxx (Praveen A)
- Date: Mon Jun 7 12:12:00 2010
2010/6/7 Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I beg to differ - from what I have read about the development of GCC and
EMACS,
the development model was more cathedral style as long as RMS was the BDFL.
"GCC development in the early days was a bit too conservative for the
tastes of many an eager hacker. Several of the frustrated developers
started their own forks of GCC in the hopes of getting their changes
much faster to end users. In 1997, several of these hackers got
together to create the EGCS project."
"In April 1999, after a long period of behind-the-scenes negotiation,
EGCS and GCC reunited, and EGCS was accepted as the GNU Project's
official GCC."
You can read the full story here
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History
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