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Probably about the same. I think the biggest thing was splitting away from using a BSD kernel since the BSD projects are typically more, hmm, pedantic? Diffic
by wheels 18y ago
Probably about the same. I think the biggest thing was splitting away from using a BSD kernel since the BSD projects are typically more, hmm, pedantic? Difficult to break into? Whatever. But the GNU led projects that have dealt with a lot of external contributors like GCC have fared quite well.
- javert 18y agoMy sense is that the split from BSD was necessary because of licensing wars over proprietary code going on at the time. It wasn't until after Linux got going pretty well that BSD was established as being free of proprietary code, with some formerly proprietary parts rewritten (hence, FreeBSD).
- blasdel 18y agoNo, GNU-led projects have had plenty of drama, GCC especially -- there was a huge forking fracas in the late nineties, and the FSF's politically-motivated crippling is largely the motivation behind LLVM's clang.