bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (11/19/88)
(note that followups are directed to comp.sys.next!) In article <1180@mace.cc.purdue.edu> mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) writes: >I just came from the NeXT demo here at Purdue...I pestered the guy >about thier window server* >... >*) The guy was kind of funny. He was all brags till I mentioned the S word :-( >(source) He may be the same guy that we had beat up here for two days about that S-word, just before he went out to visit you. We offered (how can I put this nicely?) our strong opinion that NeXT should release sources to the protocol and toolkit libraries. They should at least sell it on a separate license, or perhaps even ship it with the other bundled stuff. X can be had for free, Sun is selling NeWS, and the only way for NeXT/StepStone/IBM to make their stuff at all popular in heterogenous environments is to make sure that we can put their applications on any other vendor's system that walks in the door or trickles across the net.