Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
From: zgel05@apctrc.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anti-Commercialism (was Re: File packaging and compression)
Message-ID: <587@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:19:51 GMT
References: <259@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <572@flyer.apctrc.UUCP> <1885@hoqax.UUCP>
Reply-To: zgel05@flyer.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Organization: Amoco Production Co, Tulsa Research Center
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In article <1885@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie) writes:
>>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.

Just to clear the air slightly.  I am all for sharing freely, and for having
reliable tools to implement this sharing.  My comment was simply that using
a commercial product as the means to a goal is not necessarily bad, as 
earlier comments by many have implied.  And I still maintain that we are
completely dependent on commercial products in many areas (including compilers
as mentioned above), and nobody is complaining about those...
-- 
George Lehmann,  ...!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
Amoco Production Co., PO BOX 3385, Tulsa, Ok  74102  ph:918-660-4066
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