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From: kagle@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Jonathan C. Kagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1727@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 22:23:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1727
Posted: Sat Jul 18 22:23:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 20:47:18 EDT
References: <478@sbcs.UUCP> <1386@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: kagle@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Jonathan C. Kagle)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 41
Keywords: SUN, NEWS, cheating
Summary: Perhaps a workaround?

In article <1386@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
!In article <478@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes:
!>I have a port of Suns NeWS window system up and running on the Amiga.  For
!...
!>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.
!...
!>						Rick Spanbauer
!>						SUNY/Stony Brook
!
!Gee, isn't it a shame. Now here's something that could potentially be
!really useful to many sun users and amiga users, particularly in academic
!environments. But...sorry folks. It's too bad that SUN doesn't view this
!as a way to increase sales of suns...and hence put the Amiga end of it
!in the public domain. It a shame when compu-corps need to kill useful things
!in efforts to make sure they make the most profit. I guess since they
!aren't public service entities they shouldn't be bound to be helpful.
!Rick, too bad since YOU wrote the Amiga end YOU can't distribute it as you
!like. Anyone who needs the SUN end will already have a sun somewhere and
!can get it though their sun license. Then, at any academic place(or commercial)
!for that matter, they can buy a bunch of Amiga's and used them running of
!the SUN's that are around.

	I may be way off base, but wouldn't it be possible to distribute
massive DIFF files for the sources code to NEWS?  Assuming the DIFFs wouldn't
be considered to contain any copyrighted SUN code, it _should_ be legal.  If
David Small could hack through the MAC ROMs to make the Magic Sac without
Apple's vulture lawyers suing him, almost anything is possible.  Unfortunately,
SUN may be guarding against 68020 machines like the MAC II and expanded Amigas,
so they may be less than willing to see their software run on a "mere" A1000.

	-Jonathan C. Kagle

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