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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Old AmigaLibDisk material
Message-ID: <3906@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 17:29:36 GMT
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thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:


>I don't know about you, but I refuse to run PD binary-only distribution
>programs on my personal systems.  And the fact I've NEVER had a virus
>infestation and that my Amigas stay up 6 months at a time before rebooting
>(only because I power-down then to clean the fans, etc.) should prove the
>wisdom of my ways.

Then he says:

>The VALUE of the "Fish Disk Collection" is in the variety of material for
>everyone, comprising demos, code examples, useful utilities, and even some

Well, Thad, not everyone is a programmer or has access to a compiler, so
if Fred distributed only binaries, then not many people would get any use
out of it. I personally don't have a compiler, and don't really consider
myself a programmer (I know a little bit about C, but thats all) and so
do many other people who own amigas. To us source code is nice but not
particularly useful to us, we have to run the binaries we download or get
from the fish disks. So if a program on the Fish disks doesn't have the
source code we can live with that. I don't think Fred should eliminate 
useful programs just because there isn't any source code with it.


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