Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by octo_t on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:35PM
(#6368192)
I'd disagree and say in terms of significant contributions, Firefox has made the biggest impact, not just on the computing world but in general social terms.
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Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by bnastic on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:19PM
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"probably one of the most significant" is what the parent said - how do you disagree with that?
Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by oijaf888 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:49PM
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More so than android?
Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by bskap on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:24PM
(#6368505)
Android has gotten more people running open source software, but it hasn't done much to improve the ecosystem. There's not much coming back upstream other than some kernel updates.
Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by coldtea on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:05PM
(#6368807)
Sure. Android is basically Linux with a proprietary GUI and a riped-off of Java runtime.
Plus, it's mostly used for proprietary mobile device offerings by big corporations.
Not many open source projects benefit by Android's existance.
Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
by rsynnott on Thursday September 12, 2013 @07:38AM
(#6373415)
Depends how you mean it, really. Android has had an impact, and happens to be open-source (albeit not operated like a normal open-source project; it's closer to a code-dump, as with Apple WebKit in the early days). However, if Android was not open-source, but had source shared with OEMs, would its impact really have been substantially different? I suspect not.
However, if Mozilla, clang or WebKit had not been open-source, their impact would have been very different (and much less).