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Article #75264Re: copyleft violations
From: Rob Warnock
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 02:30
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 02:30
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In article <NELSON.90Sep2223753@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: +--------------- | In article <68378@sgi.sgi.com> karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com writes: | > FSF hasn't really invented anything nor authored a new user | > interface as far as I know. | What about their +option interface? The +option interface refers the to | ability to specify options using their full names rather than a single | letter... +--------------- Hmmm... Maybe Cadence Design Systems (Lowell, MA) should sue FSF? Cadence's simulator "Verilog" (used by thousands of chip designers) has used "+option" for YEARS! (E.g., "+pathpulse" and "+nopathpulse".) Also, the "new" part can't be using "+": Unix "sort" uses both "+" and "-" options to delimit sort keys. And it can't be long option names, "find" has those aplenty. And I have seem several programs which use "+foo" to turn something on and "-foo" to turn it off (like "sort", but longer names)... -Rob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,7a31f63f2ccb5501,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-09-07 13:28:03 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!sgi!rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: copyleft violations Message-ID: <68712@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 7 Sep 90 02:30:39 GMT References: <NELSON.90Sep2223753@image.clarkson.edu> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Reply-To: rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Distribution: gnu Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 21 Posted: Fri Sep 7 03:30:39 1990