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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Sources on net.micro.atari
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 15:54:01 EST
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There are sometimes good reasons for making binaries freely 
available but not sources.  In the case of Megaroids, it is 
probably in the best interests of Megamax to not distribute the 
source for free.  Since the purpose of Megaroids is to advertise
the Megamax C compiler, they probably want to avoid having N 
buggy versions of Megaroids floating around, which they would 
have if source were commonly available, because people would 
modify it and then distribute the modified versions.

Also, they might have some time critical stuff as inline assembly 
language.  This would tend to make it hard to compile on other C 
compilers unless they both use the same format for inline 
assembly.  Since they want Megaroids to be available to people 
who don't have Megamax C (yet!), binary is the way to go.  
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim