Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!husc6!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: free versions of complex software (Re: So let's talk about FSF) Message-ID: <2133@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 17:33:31 GMT References: <780@proxftl.UUCP> <600@sering.cwi.nl> Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 20 >Now we are talking the same language! A free program is ALWAYS >better, thats logical. Not when the free program doesn't come with a binary or printed documentation, when the free program won't compile, and when the free program gives cryptic errors on apollos and core dumps. >is a thousand times better: EVERYBODY can get it, it doesn't >cost ANYTHING and we get SOURCE!!! Yeah, sure, but the source won't compile, and it costs you more programmer $$ to make it compile than it would cost you to buy the unbuggy commercial product to begin with. -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad