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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why unix doesn't catch on
Message-ID: <13558@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:25:53 GMT
References: <7632@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <256@jwt.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <256@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:

| Gimpel Software is making their PC-Lint product available in something called
| "shrouded source".  It lets you compile the software on your target machine,
| without being able to make sense of the source code.  I don't know how viable
| this technique is, but it seems like it could have possibilities.

 Shrouded source is very old and popular. I have seen a lot of it on
BBS's and sometimes posted to USEnet. :-)
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me