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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C Uglifyer wanted
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 00:13:19 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- In article <31251bc4.9827100@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- Kevin Quitt <kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
- >It's the customer who probably doesn't have a compiler. The point is that for
- >a product that runs on diverse hardware and OSs, you either have to distribute
- >the (shrouded) source, or own one of every one of those machines and OSs.
- >Most such machines come with a C compiler, so this is feasible.
-
- >MS DOS systems are uniform, so distributing executables is OK. Distributing
- >the sources would do little good, since most people don't have C compilers.
-
- >Did I really state that so poorly?
-
- The problem has to do with the idea of distributing *a source shrouder*.
-
- Why would you distribute a source shrouder to users without C compilers?
- For that matter, why would you distribute *shrouded* source for what is
- apparently a freely available shrouder?
-
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