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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.71.0.48!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!rain.fr!globalip.ch!imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.net!news1.bellglobal.com!newspeak.ultratech.net!maggie.ionsys.com!news.corpcomm.net!news From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 30 Jan 1997 04:05:38 -0600 Organization: Corporate Communications Lines: 16 Sender: zach@murkwood.gaffaneys.com Message-ID: <87enf3h40d.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net> <5ck1ht$ovm@junkie.gnofn.org> <pIo7y0gTz7PD091yn@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup3.gaffaneys.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155157 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2135 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51392 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264444 mouth@ibm.net (Mouth of the South) writes: > Whether non-programming users have access to source code is not at > all the point. The fact that source code is available to anyone who > wants to try their hand at programming IS the point. For that > audience, the choice is clear: IBM/Microsoft object-code-only policy > bad; Linux freely available source code good. I just have to point out: BSD freely _usable_ source code very good. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.