Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!bridge2!3comvax!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Hard coded limits (was Re: LINK COUNT TABLE OVERFLOW) Message-ID: <2056@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 20 Jul 90 20:56:03 GMT References: <1990Jul13.093105.4746@sco.COM> <840@mwtech.UUCP> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 15 In <840@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes: >Sometimes I whish there were a way to put some pressure onto the >vendors of software to *force* them to deliver the source at least >partially... Blame copyright law. There was a time when only literary works could be copyrighted. Source code (which is often a work of art) could have been included in that description. Them somebody with not much sense decided that human-unreadable executable binaries fitted that description too, and the world became a much unfriendlier place. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi