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From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 21:52:30 -0700
Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com
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In article <4omjji$dd@anorak.coverform.lan>,
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Ah, IMHO, "available for unix" means source code that will compile under
>varying Unix flavours or something that's for sale for several Unix flavours.

Hmmmm....

>Why don't IBM make the REXX source code public ??!?

Why should they? There are already two different source code
implementations of REXX that run on UNIX.

Ever hear of RTFM? Well maybe you should STFW  (Search The "Fine" Web).

-- 
Michael Dillon                                   ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: michael@memra.com