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[News] Most Successful Free Software Projects Start Very Small

  • Subject: [News] Most Successful Free Software Projects Start Very Small
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Ben Goodger of Firefox on how being a very young volunteer in the web world can
pan out

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| Ben Goodger didn't invent Firefox. Nobody did. But he was the lead 
| engineer for the alternative Web browser and as responsible as 
| anyone for naming it. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| It was a joke for a while that Firefox would change its name every 
| three months. It turns out to be an incredibly difficult task to find a 
| name that isn't trademarked by somebody. We spent about a month just 
| sitting there. A good friend of mine was going through the dictionary, 
| being facetious. He said firecatch, firefox. I said, "Wait, that sounds 
| good." He said, "I was just kidding."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/01/CMGJTQA4VV1.DTL


Here is another 'silly' project that can never compete against Apple and
Microsoft...

gcc on minix-386 doesn't optimize? [from 'torvalds', first USENET post]

,----[ Quote ]
| Hello everybody,
| 
|   I've had minix for a week now, and have upgraded to 386-minix (nice),
| and duly downloaded gcc for minix. Yes, it works - but ... optimizing
| isn't working, giving an error message of "floating point stack
| exceeded" or something. Is this normal? I had problems with the crcs, so
| I'm not actually sure I've gotten it right (pretty sure though), but I'm
| somewhat surprised that gcc would use floating point in normal
| optimizations when the program under compilation certainly doesn't. 
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http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/d939bf395eb8256a/d072fd3a7d407591

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