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Subject: Re: Length of User names
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mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
| Oh, you don't have source?  Then you've got problems.  A good example
| of why binary distributions are evil.

And even if you do have source, you can't always compile it and get a
working system. :-( A good example of why proprietary systems with
funny ideas about what a source licence means are evil.