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.
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| 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]
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| Hello everybody,
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| 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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