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From: chapman@fornax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix program postings to the net
Message-ID: <181@fornax.uucp>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 17:09:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 17:09:51 1987
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> 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.
> 

While sources are nice I don't see where you get the right to discourage
anybody from posting anything which stands a chance of being useful to a
reasonable number of people.  Since most of your postings are not program
sources I assume you'll shortly stop posting?