Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Source to OS (Was Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri) Message-ID: <22555@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 Jun 91 22:34:18 GMT References: <3034@public.BTR.COM> <3095@public.BTR.COM> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 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? Of course not. And I might hand you a kitchen knife even if I figured you were going to kill yourself with it. But if I thought there was a good chance you were going to come after me with it, you wouldn't get it in the first place. Knife companies stand a real minor chance of damaging themselves by selling knives. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.