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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: sources to dvi2iff, version -1; tcp/ip for amiga
Message-ID: <2392@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 19:44:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2392
Posted: Sat Sep 26 19:44:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:47:06 EDT
References: <8709222157.AA26354@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <181@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <181@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>in article <8709222157.AA26354@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) says:
>>>>    Why hasn't Commodore released the source to the operating system?
>>>     Commodore doesn't have the soure.  At least, that's what they said
>>>earlier.  MetaComco has the source.
>> 	Try to be accurate.  The only thing commodore might possibly NOT have
>> the source to are parts of DOS, which was done by MetaComco.  Everything else
>> was done by Amiga/Commodore-Amiga/Commdore.
>     You're right.  I just assumed "operating system" referred to AmigaDOS,
>not Intuition.  At any rate, my point was that someone from Commodore
>answered the question some time back saying they didn't have the source to
>the software which was written by MetaComco.  From the discussions I've
>read about problems with the Amiga's system software, it's the MetaComco
>stuff that most needs fixing.

We got all the sources.  We've always had all the sources.  What someone
may have said in the distant past was that he/she didn't have the sources.

I think the gathered net folks have pretty much summarized the
reasons for and against distributing the source.

Control issues, lawyer issues, money issues, possible port to other
machine issues, etc.  Maybe we should have an AT&T 'big bucks for a source
license' type program.  That way we could afford the AT&T number
of lawyers to defend it.  ("Let me get this straight...its *both* copyright
*and* trade secret ???) 

Anyway, in our own peculiar fashion, we are addressing many of the
OS issues.

>--Fabbian Dufoe
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