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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Development
Keywords: Developers info package /source code
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Date: 13 Feb 89 16:49:20 GMT
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In article <1495@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>I can see both sides of the argument.  But.. I believe source
>should be available at a price, if you really need it....  There
>are quite a few times when I've been very glad that we have a
>source license for our bsd relase.
>

I just want to add my voice here.  In Universities where there is
operating system or networking research, source is pretty important.
No vendor can anticipate each and every need of such institutions,
either in the code they provide or in their documentation.

This is all exacerbated by the fact that NeXT insists that Universities
provide support for the boxes; supporting a UNIX machine you don't have the
source for is really tough.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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