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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: sources, not binaries
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 05:26:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 05:26:07 1985
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Again, I think people are getting confused.  Everyone agrees that
net.sources.mac should have a lot more sources.  However, being for sources
is not the same thing as being against binaries.  Binaries are an absolute
necessity on the Mac, because of the proliferation of incompatible compilers
and interpreters.  Without binaries, most software for the Macintosh would
be useless to most of us except as example code.

To summarize: net.sources.mac should contain sources for a greater proprtion
of the software distributed on it.  However, binary distribution of ALL
Macintosh software must also be continued, or the group is useless.

By the way, I have just posted some 12,000 lines of source code to
net.sources.mac, as I have been intending to do for weeks (but have been
unable to because of hardware problems).  I have an uncomfortable feeling
that the main opposition to net.sources.mac is coming from Mac-haters,
people who think the Mac is a worthless toy and anyone who thinks they're
using it for real work is fooling themselves.  If so, we'll see a cute
double bind forming: "Look at these huge sources!  How can we justify this
since we don't use the silly things?", forming an exquisite counterpoint to
the former "Without sources, the group is not fulfilling its mandate".
We'll see....
-=-
Tim Maroney, Professional Heretic, CMU Center for Art and Technology
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