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From: ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: source code
Keywords: don't do it, it's a trap...
Message-ID: <89474@sun.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 89 02:23:32 GMT
References: <490@nanovx.UUCP>
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Reply-To: ram@sun.UUCP (Renu Raman)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <490@nanovx.UUCP> matt@nanovx.UUCP (Matt Brandt) writes:
>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...