On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Stefan Teleman wrote: > > I was not aware that the term FOSS was invented by "US Government > Bureaucrats". Do you have a reference in support this assertion ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_%28FOSS%29_in_the_U.S._Department_of_Defense short version http://tinyurl.com/52vzvp It is not entirely clear if a usenet post or someone in the Department Of Defense used the term first but it seems that the term was first used in early 2002 (just "yesterday" as far as the history of open source is concerned) and the DoD cemented it in history. > It would have been very helpful to the technical aspects of your post if your > extremely helpful comments covering the intricate, yet subtle relationships > between the C++ Language Standard, C++ implementations thereof, the Standard > C++ Library, BOOST, TR1 and TR2, C++ Partial Template Specializations, > Standard C++ Library ABI compatibility, porting BOOST to Sun libCstd.so.1, > and submitting patches to boost.org, had been supplemented by an URL, where > we could all download patches for BOOST, apply them, compile, and pass all > the regression tests, with libCstd.so.1. Yes it would, but I am already fully consumed with contributing to the open source community and have no more spare time. No one said that the task would be easy. Since Sun cares if the code compiles with its own compiler, then it makes sense that this is one way that Sun can contribute back to the community. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
