Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Source to OS (Was Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri) Message-ID: <1991Jun18.063733.30810@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 06:37:33 GMT References: <3034@public.BTR.COM> <3095@public.BTR.COM> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <3095@public.BTR.COM> valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes: >In article dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: >> >> I am sure that many of us would use the source for appropriate purposes. >> >> Unfortunately, a greater number will definitely misuse it in major >> ways. > >What imbeciles are going to do with a very usefull tool is irrelevant. Kitchen >knives are very useful, yet many use them to kill people. Are we going to stop >manufacturing kitchen knives for that reason? > But, then again, the kitchen knife is not a copyrighted product. Commodore's source code is. That gives Commodore the right to decide, based on their financial goals, whether it is beneficial for THEM to release the code. That IS capitalism after all. Commodore is the only group authorized to release that source, whereas I could (well, if I had a factory) go out and make knives. Apples and oranges. -- Ethan "...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."