Developer Spotlight: Martin Pool (Builder AU)

[Posted August 23, 2004 by ris]

Builder AU talks with Martin Pool, a Canberra-based software engineer working on open source software for HP. "Why did you decide to develop open source software?
MP: Many years ago I downloaded a copy of GNU emacs and GNU cc (onto 3.5in floppies!) and I was just amazed that people were writing and giving away all this great software. So part of it was reciprocity: the GNU compiler people have given me so much, so I'm happy to be able to give them something useful in distcc."

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