Fixes from Knauth.

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Andrew McCallum 1996-09-04 18:15:05 +00:00
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@ -704,9 +704,9 @@ proprietary implementation in significant, core, structural ways, it is
far more difficult for the proprietary entities to claim copyright
infringement.
With Steve Job's reputation for legal intimidation (e.g. the 1991
third-party D.O. implementation, WebRex, etc), the GNUstep community
certainly needs to concern itself with legal safety.
With NeXT's reputation for legal intimidation (e.g. the 1991 third-party
D.O. implementation, WebRex, etc), the GNUstep community certainly needs
to concern itself with legal safety.
But the far more exciting reason for structural differences is the
increased efficiency and features that come from the changes. The item
@ -716,10 +716,10 @@ organizational differences provide.
Many of these advantages are based on variations in class hierarchy, and
could not have been obtained by simply adding Category methods, or
subclasses to NeXT's structural organization. Using advantageous GNU
structure, providing the OpenStep standard interface on top of the GNU
implementations is quite straightforward, (and, when the mechanism is
understood, quite clean, also).
subclasses to NeXT's structural organization. Using the advantageous
GNU structures, providing the OpenStep standard interface on top of the
GNU implementations is quite straightforward, (and when the mechanism
is understood, quite clean, also).
By analogy, consider the GNU C Library's @i{stdio} functionality. It is
based on a different underlying structure that provides new features not