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From: rpburry@ncs.dnd.ca (Paul Burry)
Subject: Re: Is there an ftp-able archive of PD SYBASE source?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.003155.17677@ncs.dnd.ca>
Organization: Dept of National Defence
References: <1991Mar16.144516.6702@ncs.dnd.ca> <12890@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 00:31:55 GMT

In article <12890@sybase.sybase.com> ben@india.sybase.com (benjamin e. von ullrich) writes:
|the SYBASE system is a proprietary, copyrighted system that is available for
|use by license only.  licenses usually cost money, but always involve a legal
|contract.  if you want source, i think the only source code sybase sells is 
|that of DB-LIBRARY (or OPEN CLIENT), the programming library which
|connects all front-end programs to SQL Server.  source for other parts of
|the system, most notably SQL Server, is not available.  Come on, folks, how it
|works is a secret!
|
|i'm not in product marketing or legal, so take my statements accordingly.
|the answer to your question is: Sybase is NOT public-domain.
|
|
|..ben
|------
|benjamin e. von ullrich		 only i do the talking here -- not my employer.
|ben@sybase.com			       {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis}!sybase!ben
|  "why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?" --hobbes on calvin

I'm afraid you misunderstood my poorly worded request.

I wanted to know I there were any archives of freely-distributable source
written in Transact-SQL.
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