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From: tinguely@plains.UUCP (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HP's Object Only
Message-ID: <3079@plains.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 90 04:50:50 GMT
Reply-To: tinguely@plains.UUCP (Mark Tinguely)
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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I do not want to start a war words against any vendor, nor upset anyone
(Myself and NDSU, as an institution, have in the past and hope to continue
in the future, a friendly relationship with HP, Sun, DEC, and Apple. I am
sure everyone at NDSU will quickly point out my ideas are my own).

I am a little surprised to see that MIT distributed the R4 HP server section 
in object format only format. I understand that the HP server does not contain
MIT code (so I read this as the server was created by HP). I also understand
that HP has the right to distribute their software in this manner if they so
chose.

My point is that X is popular because it works on many different machines
and operating systems and that open-ness was encouraged. What I am wondering
is this a future trend for the other vendors?

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Mark Tinguely           North Dakota State University,  Fargo, ND  58105
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