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ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

Posted Apr 30, 2009 4:29 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem by dberkholz
Parent article: ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

This is a standard problem with free software developers. Forks, rewrites, embedded code copies, hundreds of different editors/music players/etc. This is a social problem that will probably never go away, so now is the time to get over it and worry about something else.


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ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

Posted May 1, 2009 17:04 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

This is a standard problem with free software developers. Forks, rewrites, embedded code copies, hundreds of different editors/music players/etc. This is a social problem that will probably never go away,

And to put a finer point on it, it is a political problem. For many of us, it is far easier, and more satisfying, to develop and distribute an alternative to xyz than to get the people who control xyz to see things our way and cooperate to distribute our work.

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