Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!umd5!brl-adm!adm!ted%nmsu.csnet@relay.cs.net From: ted%nmsu.csnet@relay.cs.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V5#078 Message-ID: <16329@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 29 Jun 88 11:06:36 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 24 Geoff Kratz writes: ... Our main goal for getting the source is to gain some insight into the system itself (the documentation enhancement you mentioned). For me specifically, that means actually see what happens in the low-level windowing (the documentation seems to be sparse or missing in places). ... But, as I said before, our management would like to see some "revenue" created directly because of the licence (you know, money for money) and our department's arguments alone aren't sufficient. For windowing, get X, the source is part of the distribution. You don't get the source to sun-windows without very special arrangements since it isn't really part of unix. Other than that, source is not very important anymore, I have worked both with and without it and it is a rare instance that you REALLY need to hack on the source. Source is worth the university price for general amusement of the sort that you have mentioned, but not worth the commercial price unless it is part of a delivered product.