Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu 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 Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2388 Posted: Fri Jul 10 05:12:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 10:50:28 EDT References: <1828@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <977@hoqax.UUCP> <465@cord.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 17 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. -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet.