From: Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
On Tue, 28 May 2002 18:04:56 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Schilling said:
The result from not using this development model is a significant slow down in development speed.
Quality and speed is in most cases a contradiction ;-)
Granted, you are right! Most GPL software is not best quality software, so blindly colleting pieces and then compile a new program is not a good idea.
However, there are exceptions...
I recently took the program cdparanoia and made a library off the important part of the source. This took (together with Heiko's to integrate it into cdda2wav) less than a week (5x8 hours).
Writing similar things by your own would take at least half a year.
Jörg
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
From: Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Quality and speed is in most cases a contradiction ;-)
Granted, you are right! Most GPL software is not best quality software, so blindly colleting pieces and then compile a new program is not a good idea.
The choice of license does not directly infere with the quality of the code. The development decisions and the development model does.
GNU GPL can be used for several development models. A lof of code under GPL is very good.