Re: The GNU license.

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From: Dave Sill
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 03:21

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In article <8808@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>To make an anlogy: compiling code with GCC is akin to editing text
>with gemacs.  It doesn't matter which editor/compiler you use, you get
>the same result.

(I hate analogies.)  But you *don't* get the same result, at least if
you consider the size of the resulting binary or the speed at which it
runs.  For all but the simplest programs, the result of an optimized
compilation will be as unique as a fingerprint.  But that's just a
weakness in your analogy.
-- 
Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)

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