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From: thomps@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix program postings to the net
Message-ID: <3038@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 07:19:58 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.3038
Posted: Fri Feb  6 07:19:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 19:28:40 EST
References: <962@osiris.UUCP> <7619@utzoo.UUCP> <468@gouldsd.UUCP> <1750@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 18
Summary: Please no binaries

In article <1750@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> In article <468@gouldsd.UUCP>, mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
> > More to the point, suppose I make a version of uuclone...
> >                        ...but do not want to give out sources ?
> 
> Then don't post it to the net.  Send it to some IBM PC user group or
> package it up and sell it.  The net is for portable software, and
> binaries are not portable.

Here here ! I no longer grab binaries period because like all programs
they usually contain bugs. If I have the sources, I can usually fix the bugs
but without them, its just not worth the frustation. 

-- 
Ken Thompson  Phone : (404) 894-7089
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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