gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (07/18/88)
> I think sun's attitude seems to more "may the best > one win". sun's policy on NeWS is pretty much like NFS , if you want > a reference source kit you hand over your XXXX amount of dollars and > you get it. diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) wrote: > Yes, that is true now. However, it is virtually impossible to implement either > NFS or NeWS without the reference source. Sun designs a capable, very hard to build software product, builds it, and offers to sell the sources to anybody for cheap. The complaint is that they designed something that was too hard to clone? Be real... John "I cloned uucp without the reference sources" Gilmore PS: Besides, PostScript (the hard part of NeWS) has been cloned several times, one of which will be distributed free by the GNU project. -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it, Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"