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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Sources on net.micro.atari
Message-ID: <434@l5.uucp>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 07:05:45 EST
Article-I.D.: l5.434
Posted: Fri Jan 17 07:05:45 1986
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References: <347@ihnet.UUCP> <185@imagen.UUCP> <660@ihlpm.UUCP> <265@ism780c.UUCP>
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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Summary: Binary without source is used as an ad?

In article <265@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> There are sometimes good reasons for making binaries freely 
> available but not sources...
>                   Since the purpose of Megaroids is to advertise
> the Megamax C compiler...

If the purpose of Megaroids is to advertise a commercial C compiler,
why are we paying to distribute it over the net?

Let them incur the cost of sending out their ad.
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