Re: Linux stifles innovation...

Dr. Kelsey Hudson (kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com)
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:08:48 -0800 (PST)


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
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