gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias) (05/10/88)
In article <9395@apple.Apple.Com> dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen) writes: >DISCLIAMER: NO, these Apple internal versions of Lex and Yacc are NOT >available for the public. YES, I wish they were. Lean on your favorite >product marketing people and tell them you'd like to be able to buy Lex >and Yacc and Awk for MPW and maybe they'd figure out a way to sell it. >The reason that they are not available is simple: it is a legal issue. >Something to do with Unix and AT&T, if I recall right. Better yet, why don't you (the hackers at Apple) just bring up the public domain versions, available for all these programs (flex, GNU Bison, GNU Awk) instead of wasting hacker & lawyer time on the proprietary versions. Then you could give them away, saving your employer huge amounts of money on lawyer fees while helping to sell more MPW's. -- gz@entity.com ...!mit-eddie!spt!gz Now let's all repeat the non-conformist oath.