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From: srwmcln@windy.dsir.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <18907.28622e84@windy.dsir.govt.nz>
Date: 21 Jun 91 16:51:16 GMT
References: <3117@public.BTR.COM> <22570@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3136@public.BTR.COM>
Organization: DSIR, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <3136@public.BTR.COM>, valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> In article <22570@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael
> Sinz) writes:
>>
>>[article omitted]
> 
> You message was entirely an insult and personal attack on me.
That was not so much a personal attack, but evidence that your own arguments
are flawed.

It might be interesting to see more Amiga source from CA, but with a vast
population of hackers out there, and very little communication
between software providers and users, then being able to get source would
just produce a real maintainance nightmare for Commodore and others.

The statements from your (old/previous) friends/? at Commodore suggests
that team software developement by them, is non existant or has some other
problems, or was it that you were too inexperienced to ask/know about the rules.

I help support some software products for Vax VMS, and in one case we use
nonpublic info to make our software appear better integrated, but we have
to remember that at each new release of the DEC system software we may have
to fix our software and ship it to all our customers,fortunatily there are
few customer (not >2,000,000) and DEC's software is very stable in the area
where we cheated.

Lets stop this thread about public source for Commodore software and
get on with the real issues to make these systems greater.

Clive.