Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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. The term had been in use much earlier than the date of a DoD report. It was in use in the '90's. >> 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. In other words, you have never attempted to actually work on this port, and you do not know if this port is even possible, or not, given the existing constraints. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
