kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) (01/10/85)
[You faint from lack of bytes ...] I must confess, I'm puzzled. I've just been reading this: >From: usenet@gatech.UUCP >Newsgroups: net.announce.newusers >Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions ..... >10. net.games: Where can I get the source for empire or > rogue? > > You can't. The authors of these games, as is their right, have > chosen not to make the sources available. Strange, for one constantly sees news of the form "Wanted: source for rogue". I've even posted such myself. I am reliably informed that such postings often obtain satisfactory results. Yet the article in net.announce.newusers SPECIFICALLY states that the sources are not available. Can the excellent Mr. Spafford be guilty of perpetrating a terminological inexactitude? The question arises: If I have a "rogue" source on a machine, is it rogue? Is it legitimate? What is "real" rogue ("real", I suppose, meaning "by the author(s) of rogue") ? Could those-in-the-know settle this? Possibly a family tree of rogue programs might help. Certainly the confusion should be cleared up, if only for the sake of the innocent peruser of net.announce.newusers. :-) Kay.-- "I'm afraid we haven't got round to providing a bug for that fix yet ..." ... mcvax!ukc!flame!kay