On 6/7/07, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Examples of open source projects which have followed a
> closed source model include gcc and linux. (But, properly
> speaking, that's anecdote, not data.)
You can download the source for gcc anytime you want. How has it followed a
closed source model?
The licensing of gcc has always been "open source". However, the licensing
of C compilers, in general have not always been. (Though, granted, the first
C compilers were written before copyright was considered a significant issue
for software). And, gcc is, in some sense of the word, a c compiler.
And Linux seems open source to me.
I don't have the faintest idea what you mean here Raul.
Linux is patterned on unix, which has been treated as a proprietary
system.
Anyways, my underlying question was: should we distinguish between
implementation and design when considering open source projects?
Are the same models good for both?
--
Raul
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