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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 17:48:13 GMT
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In article <1991Feb9.000821.5554@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU
(Greg Lindahl) writes:

>what about the poor sod who buys a Wizz-Bang X Box that includes X and
>no source? He finds a bug, someone on the net provides a source-code
>fix, and then he has to wait 6 months for the vendor to ship him a
>fixed binary.

what about the poor sod who buys a Wizz-Bang X Box that includes X and
no source? He goes and gets the X source from someone on the net. He finds
a bug, someone provides a source-code fix, he applies it without having to
wait for his irresponsible vendor to ship him a fixed binary.

>Oh yeah, that's ideal.

In this discussion, ``ideal'' is strictly relative to the amount of
verbosity stuffed into one's strawman. [But you knew that already.]

oz
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