Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT and sources (really "Do we need OS source?") Message-ID: <6196@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 8 Jan 89 09:12:11 GMT References: <8812220917.AA10582@decwrl.dec.com> <29954@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <6193@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 21 In article <6193@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > I think it's great that NeXT will not provide source (except to IBM, > and except for source to GNU stuff like gcc and gdb, which presumably > goes to everybody). > > After all, I have a lot of Sun stock... In article webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: >Sun? Aren't they the company that doesn't provide online copies of their >manuals for things like SunView? Everything Sun does is perfectly well documented on-line. Just look in all those .c files. They're in plain text format for convenience. You could hardly do an NFS port without them, after all. -- Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim "But don't you see, the color of wine in a crystal glass can be spiritual. The look in a face, the music of a violin. A Paris theater can be infused with the spiritual for all its solidity." -- Lestat, THE VAPIRE LESTAT, Anne Rice