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From: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: source code
Keywords: don't do it, it's a trap...
Message-ID: <1234@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 17:55:47 GMT
References: <490@nanovx.UUCP> <89474@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Organization: Radiology, Duke Med. Center, Durham, NC
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>Maybe NeXT just wants to make sure the environment doesn't change every
>time you sneeze...

'Twon't change at all; won't even be acquired. I spoke with a gentleman at
NeXT about the source code issue; he kindly explained that the source code was
being forbidden at the behest of big software houses, who want to have an
absolutely stagnant unchanging target to code to. That, he claimed, is why you
could buy so much user-friendly software for Macintosh and PCs and so little
for Suns. I thanked him for the explanation. It makes things much clearer; I
loathe Macintoshes and am not wild about PCs; NeXT is welcome to compete in
that market and I don't need any, thanks. I do wish someone would compete with
Sun, though; they have a monopoly, effectively, and they know it. Going the
way of DEC....

-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu