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From: willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disks 103-110 now available
Message-ID: <382@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 14:54:12 EST
Article-I.D.: auvax.382
Posted: Mon Nov  2 14:54:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:12:40 EST
References: <426@mcdsun.UUCP> <428@mcdsun.UUCP> <3131@xanth.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Keywords: "Fish disks"
Summary: You've hit the nail on the head!

In article <3131@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> 
> [In response to Fred's notice of a bunch of obnoxious distribution
> limitations on software developed with ABSOFT's FORTRAN compiler.]
> 
> I doubt they'll miss me, but goodbye Absoft!  A compiler is a TOOL,
> and that is all it is.  If I were digging ditches, and a shovel
> manufacturer asked me to get a license absolving them from all
> responsibility for injuries caused by my ditch, or required me to post
> a "This ditch dug with an Ajax shovel" notice by every ditch I dug, it
> would make about as much sense as Absoft's requirements.
> 
I agree completely. If I buy a compiler I expect to be able to do whatever I 
like with the machine code it produces - sell it, distribute it, eat it,
whatever. I too was thinking of getting this item, but now? -forget it!


Tony Willis
 
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