Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Best window system & Why
Message-ID: <3146@phri.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 23:05:45 GMT
References: <1681@desint.UUCP> <42080@sun.uucp> <2994@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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> Of course, it would be a lot easier for people to develop informed
> opinions on NeWS if Sun were to freely release the source for the server

	I don't see why having or not having source should change your mind
about how easy or hard it is to write NeWS applications, how well or poorly
the documention is written, how buggy the system is, etc.  I used to be a
hard-core "must have source" person, but I've lately started to come off my
high horse about that.  Given a choice between buggy source and high
quality binaries, I'll take the binaries any day.  (And no, I'm not saying
that X is buggy.)
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016