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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ais.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD Date: 21 Jan 1997 16:42:49 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5c2rm9$fjs@helena.MT.net> References: <32B744C0.2DA9@wdc.net> <5bqs4v$oar@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5c08m3$dvk@qnx.com> <5c14ih$7nn@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34283 In article <5c14ih$7nn@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry) wrote: [ Before I go off, I want to state for the record that I *highly* respect Doug, Dan, and the rest of the folks at QNX. QNX is a great product, and has alot of features that the we the free *nix folks could use, and some stuff we could learn from. ] >> We don't distribute our source because our customers don't need it. > >That's always easy to claim. :) > >Well, just curious: did any of your customers ever ask you about >getting the source? If so, what has been your reaction? I know as a student I talked with Dan Hildebrand about getting some copies` of QNX for 'educational' purposes. I was told that source was not available, which seems silly since the best education a student can get (IMHO) is studying well documented source. However, recently a QNX developer informed me that he had access to source, which I found ironic given the very obvious statement that source wasn't distributed to customers. In any case, I would *love* to get a copy of QNX to play with, with our withoug source. But, spending a couple kilobucks to get a development environment as an individual means I don't make a house payment, so it's not going to happen anytime soon. ;( Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@trout.mt.sri.com | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra