Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!cf-cm!cybaswan!eechris From: eechris@cybaswan.UUCP (cp.jobling eleceng staff) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyleftability Message-ID: <1336@cybaswan.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 90 14:53:05 GMT References: Lines: 25 From article , by deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine): > > On 23 Dec 89 10:28:41 GMT, jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) said: > > Jon> This seems highly unlikely. Not to cast dispersions on your > Jon> programming abilities, but even most *commercial* software needs > Jon> support - and very *few* have good documentation. > > Most emphatically, *commercial* software != _professional_ software. > > Much commercial software is the most poorly written crap I've seen, > often worse than PD sw. Documentation? *sigh* Must be a lost art or > something... > > Deven > -- > Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu > Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 > Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven > Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. -- ======================================================================== Chris Jobling, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------