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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: how to get DOS kermit c source code?
Date: 27 Oct 1995 16:44:08 -0500
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In article <46628c$qdn@chopin.udel.edu>,
Jerry Alexandratos <darkstar@chopin.udel.edu> wrote:
>Kermit is free. But that doesn't mean that the source code can't be
>copyrighted. Just because Kermit is available to everyone doesn't mean
>that the source code is there to be butchered by everyone (at least not
>without the author's consent).
Kermit is only free if you go get it yourself. I suppose if you are
a university you can get away with telling the students they have
to do it themselves. The rest of the world can't so people end
up using something else and you can't count on finding kermit
on the other end of a file transfer anymore.
>The philosophy didn't change, just the times.
It just doesn't seem like the old days when each release would have
contributions from at least dozens of sources. I don't think there
has been a general decline in free software. The other contributors
have just moved to items with less restricted distribution. Why
give something away if the people who need it can't use it?
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com