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From: matt@nanovx.UUCP (Matt Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: source code
Keywords: don't do it, it's a trap...
Message-ID: <490@nanovx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 23:14:23 GMT
Organization: Boylan Enterprises, Ltd.  Norcross, GA
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I can think of one really good reason NOT to distribute the source code
that has nothing to do with NeXT being stingy. Right now, if you write a
program for UNIX you have to take into account the fact that it might have
berkely extensions. or sun extensions... or somebodies real time extensions.
and it might run News. or it might run X11. or it might not. You can't
really PLAN on anything. This makes your UNIX code about as far from
portable as possible on a "portable" operating system.

Maybe NeXT just wants to make sure the environment doesn't change every
time you sneeze...