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From: kevin@hiatus.dec.com (Kevin Baranski-Walker (If you can't beat 'em; Hostile Takeover!))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT and sources
Message-ID: <8812220917.AA10582@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 22 Dec 88 09:17:36 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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> Posted: 20 Dec 88 18:01:32 GMT
> Organization: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Steve Miller says:

> I stressed to him the importance of sources, both for system administration
> and for research ...

Gee I got alot of work accomplished w/o MVS, RT-11, or VMS sources (pre-DEC of 
course :-)

> An educational-market machine that won't sell in the educational market
> because no one can get sources doesn't have much of a market left, does it?

The focus of the NeXT cube being educational doesn't [necessarily] warrent the 
availability of sources.  Do you have sources for MAC OS or MS/DOS?  I cannot 
see NeXT easily licensing their sources since it's their implementation that 
sets them apart from the competition.  (Apple's fanatic control of the Mac's ROM 
has kept cloning at bay for 4 *very important* years)


Kevin