Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!twitch!hoqax!twb
From: twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anti-Commercialism (was Re: File packaging and compression)
Message-ID: <1885@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 14:48:49 GMT
References: <259@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <572@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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>comments about 'not depending on commercial products' are total rubbish.
>George Lehmann,  ...!uunet!apctrc!zgel05

There is a difference between
using a commercial C compiler for writing and compiling programs  and
being able to share copies of that software with others via a common
distribution mechanism.

This is the notion of OPEN systems.

Tom.