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- From: Ty_Sarna@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Ty Sarna)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- References: <1992Nov22.192042.10307@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26c beta (Nov 19 1992)
- Message-ID: <Ty_Sarna.0ktq@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:31:03 CST
- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
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- In <1992Nov22.192042.10307@freenet.carleton.ca>, aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:
- > Sorry. The whole nature of operating systems such as Linux, Mach
- > and BSD is that they are source released. If CBM doesn't provide
- > publicly accessable documentation to these people, the Amiga will just
- > be dropped as a platform to bother to support these operating systems
- > on.
-
- It would still work under copyleft or the Berzerkeley license to just
- distribute those driver files as object only, if they weren't copylefted
- themselves. Nonoptimal, but better than nothing.
-
- > my DTR issue from a CBM employee, and a few past-employee's have just
- > made me begin to think all over again why it is that I bother to
- > try to support AmigaDos.
-
- I think the same thing from time to time, but a good session of Xview
- programming will cure me quickly... and NFS locking problems, and SunOS
- distributed with /etc/passwd and some other files world-writable, and...
-
- > It's funny that while one shared library (serial.device) gets
- > me ticked, it's other shared libraries like xpr*.library,
- > xferq.library, etc that keep me with the Amiga.
-
- Every system has it's ups and downs.... Overall the Amiga is a very nice
- machine for me, but there are some very annoying things about it.
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