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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: remapping keyboard on 3B1?
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 21:11:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 21:11:28 1987
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In article <388@genesis.ATT.COM> andys@genesis.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes:
>I suspect that the source to the loadable driver contains
>some proprietary code of AT&T.  The CAPCTRL driver was provided by
>AT&T folks as a public service, for free.   It is a *LOT* easier to
>get management to allow such public services to continue if you keep
>your disassemblers off of the result.

I guess I understand part of the agrument here, but much remains a
mystery.  What possible gain does AT&T have from keeping the source to
these 7300 specific tools proprietary, secret, and locked in house?

On the contrary, it would enhance the satisfaction of their users to
make this stuff open and available.  It is particularly true now that 
the machine is being orphaned.

-dB




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