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From: eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mach sources not avail. from NeXT ? (Was : Re: Free Updates ?)
Message-ID: <3405@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 20 Dec 90 15:18:13 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.220233.22541@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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From article <1990Dec19.220233.22541@ecst.csuchico.edu>, by tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui):
> disk, or floppy disk, as well as purchase it from NeXT).  Source
> code is a separate item and costs roughly $125 from a separate
> vendor because most of what's out there is from GNU.  Word has it
> that NeXT will make _almost_ all source available: the interface
> builder, the Mach kernel, its <Objective-C, C++, and C> compiler,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...

We've been told by the NeXT people, that source for the Mach OS will not
be available from NeXT, which, in my opinion is a bad move from NeXT.
The argumentation was something like "we don't want people to tinker around
in the kernel, probably making it so incompatible that sone software won't
run anymore". I don't think this argument counts for academic sites,
who would not release what they've changed, but rather use it for education.
I for once don't know another real life system that uses mach, so the NeXT
would be quite a good system for the purpose of looking into a mach
system.

Sorry if this has been discussed already in this group, i don't normally
read it. Can someone comment on this ?
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