Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!boake2!jc3b21!fgd3
From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Picture swap (was Re: clite demo)
Summary: The neophytes can get local help compiling code.
Keywords: bozo ideas.
Message-ID: <414@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 16:35:54 GMT
References: <4398@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5560@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2121@sugar.UUCP> <4456@killer.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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In article <4456@killer.UUCP>, woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods) writes:
>      Tell me, what are the people who don't have compilers or programming
> expertise supposed to do?  Download all that fun source and just look at it
> like it was high art?  Contrary to what I've seen implied elsewhere, most
> of the Amiga owners in the universe *aren't* programmers or developers.

     The important question is how do the costs of keeping the binaries
group compare with the benefits?  If the majority of Usenet readers aren't
programmers it makes sense to devote the bandwidth to binaries for their
benefit.  But my impression is that Usenet readers are generally able to
compile programs.  True, there are lots of Amiga owners who aren't
programmers, but if they don't have access to Usenet anyway it's hard to
justify the bandwidth for binaries.

     People who don't have Usenet access get programs from those who do,
through user groups, dealer libraries, and the Fish libraries.  The
suggestion to stop distributing binaries over the net deserves some
research into the usefulness of binaries to Usenet readers.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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