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UNIX code would be useful

UNIX code would be useful

Posted Aug 7, 2003 16:14 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Open Source "State of the Union" address

UNIX code would be useful for historic and educational purposes. Computer Science students could see excellent examples of how to write software and how not to write software.

Also, some little pieces of code could be still useful for practical use. For example, some Minix utilities were included in Busybox after Minix license was relaxed. The UNIX shell and make utility could be used in testsuites for portability of GNU software.


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