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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1242@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 05:41:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 18 05:41:25 1987
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Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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> I'm not really interested in debating the religious issues of X -vs- NeWS 
[...]
> As for distributing AmigaNeWS, I've been told by Sun that I cannot distribute
> it under any circumstances - before you go bashing them, though, remember
> that they've had quite a few folks working for YEARS on NeWS, and believe it
> or not, they would like to recoup their investment.  Can't say I blame them.
> Anyways, I hope to get them a copy of the reference port of NeWS so at the
> very least they can distribute it to other source licensees. 
> 
> 						Rick Spanbauer
> 						SUNY/Stony Brook

If Sun wants to recoup their investment, and if they *really* want
NeWS to be a standard instead of X, then they would allow people to
distribute ports of NeWS, instead of engaging in "software terrorism"
as they seem to be doing.  X has one very, very big advantage over
NeWS; it's freely redistributable.

				--M-- 

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