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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: source code
Keywords: don't do it, it's a trap...
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Date: 14 Feb 89 15:27:31 GMT
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In article <1234@dukeac.UUCP> bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd) writes:
>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 ...

Snicker.  UNIX has changed a LOT less in the last five years than the
macintosh operating system.  Every system release breaks some developer's
code.  They change the ROMS.  They add HFS.  They add color.  They add
multiprocessing.  All these things radically change the environment; Apple
sometimes patches to work around specific applications, but eventually
things have to be rewritten.  The macintosh, no source included, is a
developer's nightmare.

The ``gentleman at NeXT'' is feeding us a lot of digested grasses, to
use a polite term.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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