[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:48:36 +0000, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> In article <4ae8de5e$0$276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
>>> star started in 1982, GNU tar started in 1987 smake started 1984, GNU
>>> make started in 1988
>>> 
>>> GNU tar as well as GNU make have unfixed problems (most of them since
>>> more than 10 years) and the maintainers are not responsive with fixes.
>>> There is e.g. a problem with GNU tar that causes GNU tar to be even
>>> unable to unpack own archives under some conditions that still has not
>>> been completely fixed.
>>
>>Use the power of GPL and fork them.
> 
> It is easier to work on a clean implementation that to work on
> implementations that have many known problems because if the source
> structure.
> 
> I am sure you prefer to use your own shoes instead of trying to make
> other peoples shoes fit to you.
> 
> BTW: why did people create GNU make and GNU tar although smake and star
> did exist before?

What are your licence conditions? That might have been an issue.

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