Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:8987 comp.unix.questions:7332 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!csun!polyslo!jeff From: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (net.executioner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Hamilton Group Announcement Message-ID: <2984@polyslo.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 02:51:19 GMT References: <7147@swan.ulowell.edu> <233@mcf.UUCP> <4734@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <8401@dhw68k.cts.com> <22992@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (net.executioner) Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 22 In article <22992@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > >>aforementioned OCO policy); the IBMers who were there would only say >>something to the effect that they were aware of the importance of the >>issue and that they were looking into it. (If my memory serves me >>rightly here.) > >Having heard that phrase from them untold times that is IBMese for >"No" ('We are aware of it and looking into it'). At the time that I left the IBM group doing 4.3 for RT's and 6152 Academic Systems(5 months ago) they were still distributing systems with source code. THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD GET THE SYSTEM WAS WITH SOURCE CODE!!!! There were discussions of a binary only distribution, as an option, but I don't think that this as been implemented yet. The people giving the talk were probably marketing types who could not fathom the possibility of IBM distributing source code. Jeff Weinstein Computer Systems Lab, Cal Poly State Univ. jeff@polyslo or ucbvax!voder!polyslo!jeff