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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Public domain Amiga Transformer
Message-ID: <4565@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 16:10:59 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> dave@csis.dit.csiro.au writes:
> 
> Why doesn't Commodore make "Amiga Transformer" freely distributable,
> or at least offer the source (free) under some non-disclosure
> agreement to some Amiga hobby programmers who can turn it into
> a useful binary-only freely-distributable piece of software?
> (maybe me)
> 
> Dave Campbell


Here's a question you can ask yourself, Dave...
If you had the plans for a light-powered automobile and you were currently
selling pre-assembled versions of it for $1200.00 per unit, would you rent a
billboard and plaster the plans up for everyone to see?

I don't mean to be facious, Dave. I'm just trying to say that Commodore, like
all other companies in this free-enterprise system, is motivated (at some
point) by profit. I don't think they'll give away the Transformer code while
they still have BridgeBoards to sell.
:-)
-Ron Tarrant