Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Source to OS (Was Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 20:00:10 GMT References: <3034@public.BTR.COM> <3095@public.BTR.COM> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 31 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? > >In the same light, we might then argue for/againt the banning of guns, but that >is another story. > >Valentin We generally hold pests in low regard, but locust swarms still turn thousands of acres into sand. One has to look at the reality of the situation, which you are clearly not doing. The fact is that those few people can, through their misuse, destroy what stability the Amiga has as well as make tech people's job impossible. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA