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Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits

Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits

Posted Dec 23, 2009 2:21 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755)
In reply to: Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits by landley
Parent article: Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits

Bruce is right: "decide which function to perform by looking at argv[0]" predates gzip.

I have here in my hand Kernighan and Pike, _The_UNIX_Programming_Environment_, which suggests the idea on page 85, as "a novel use".

Publication date?

1984.

Anyone wanna go back any further than that?

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Bruce Perens: Statement on Busybox Lawsuits

Posted Dec 23, 2009 22:51 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

My point was merely that gzip's use of the technique predated busybox.

Otherwise: dead thread, by the editor's request.


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