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From: hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Critcism or Embarassment,ATARI corp?
Message-ID: <1981@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 16:29:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1981
Posted: Thu Oct  8 16:29:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 09:23:24 EDT
References: <8710012029.AA22072@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <863@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: hans@umd5 (Hans Breitenlohner)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <863@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes:
> ...
>We took the story to Sam Tramiel, President of Atari Corp.  The three of us
>agreed that we had no problem allowing the release of the emulator, but in
>return for this we wanted Darek to release his source code as public domain.
> ...

What a noble thought.  I think the idea of releasing source code is great.

Did this idea come from the same company which has steadfastly refused
to release (or even to acknowledge requests for) the source for the XL
operating system?  How much better a world this would be if the left hand
and the right hand could agree on the goodness value of things.

Note that I am not suggesting that the OS source be put in the public domain,
only that source should be available.  Of course I can disassemble the ROMs
(and have done so), and most of what I want to know can be extracted that
way.  It just hurts to think of the more productive things I could have
with that time!