Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:09:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:09:03 -0500 Received: from blackhole.compendium-tech.com ([206.55.153.26]:56825 "EHLO sol.compendium-tech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:08:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:08:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation... In-Reply-To: <20010222081720.B31628@ldh.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Augustin Vidovic wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:00:26PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > > By saying this, you are implying that all pieces of code released under > > the GPL are 'good' pieces of code. > > If you want to rephrase it like that, ok, but then you must not forget > why these pieces of code are 'good' : because everybody have access to the > source code and may debug or improve it as needed. 'good' in this case was meant to mean working properly, well-coded, does-what-it's-suppossed-to-do, eg not broken in one way or another. English should have a better word that 'good...' Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/