Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <9SQ&.FC@splut.conmicro.com> Date: 25 Jul 90 22:50:42 GMT References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <14W43HC@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 21 In article <14W43HC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: >> Breaking binaries on Usenet will get rid of them, all right, but at the >> cost of cutting Usenet users off completely from nearly all >> residtributed programs. You won't get the authors to do things your way. >Breaking binaries on UNIX didn't have that result. You're contradicting >yourself. ...huh? Your statement doesn't make much sense. Binaries haven't been useful for Unix sites since it was first ported off a PDP-11. >Remember, Usenet is not a BBS. Agreed...but how is that relevant to the current discussion about binaries versus source? -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +---------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_