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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: THE STORE! -- "PD" binaries
Message-ID: <2388@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 05:12:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 05:12:19 1987
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ebh@cord.UUCP (Ed Horch) wrote:
>               One...                    consists of completely
> non-proprietary software, a lot of it being nicely packaged public
> domain stuff like Larn.

I un-uuencoded the STORE! catalog, found an ASCII cpio archive, and
took it apart.  From the descriptions enclosed, it looks like this
"nicely packaged public domain stuff" that you can get in source from
your friendly neighborhood Usenet site or archive, only comes in binary
from these turkeys.  A few things have sources, but source is the
exception, not the rule.

The last thing we need is for AT&T to be pushing the "public domain
binary" disease that has crippled MSDOS hackers for so long.
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