Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!pt!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp 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 Article-I.D.: spice.1242 Posted: Sat Jul 18 05:41:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 20:41:58 EDT Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 26 Keywords: > 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-- Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: {backbone-site}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club...tons o' fun) "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" --Laurie Anderson, "Lanugage is a Virus"