Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT and sources Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 89 02:19:30 GMT References: <651@blake.acs.washington.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 14 In-reply-to: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.ACS.Washington.EDU's message of 28 Jan 89 00:08:54 GMT In article <651@blake.acs.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.ACS.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes: It is not too late for NeXT to undo the damage. But every day that NeXT waffles on the issue, more damage gets done. If I didn't care, if I didn't wish NeXT success, I wouldn't be sending this message. Lest ("NeXT vs sources") seem too harsh, let me chime in again with Mr Crispin in wishing NeXT well. The NeXT cube is a nifty machine, and I look forward to developing applications for it. It is inappropriate for our department's general instructional and research environment because of the lack of several features, one of them being source availability. But that can be changed, and the machine could be a major force in moving educational workstation technology forward.