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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: SGI Space Simulator Version 1.0 (long)
- Message-ID: <so86l7g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 00:45:29 GMT
- References: <smith.722529927@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov23.201718.1962@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Nov23.201718.1962@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, stiles@rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Randy Stiles) writes:
- > ...
- > BTW - there are some good utilities on sgi.com, but it
- > seems somewhat neglected... there are other demos, etc
- > floating around that never make their way onto this machine.
-
-
- Because sgi.com is owned and operated by Silicon Graphics, we cannot:
-
- -release much of the contents of the tapes or CDROMs on the machine.
- After all, software pays some of our salaries.
-
- -release things from third parties.
- If the accountants and lawyers ever look at what we're doing,
- they'll probably have cats, legal mumbo-jumbo all over the
- README files or not.
-
- Then Imagine the hassles of ensuring that stuff from third
- parties is really free and clear of restrictive lisenses, not
- to mention sufficiently unlike to trash file systems, mail
- passwords home, or anything else surprising. It's not just
- malign intent you would have to guard against, but the fact
- that many people simply do not conceive of lisense requirements
- or wide testing.
-
- Shipping third party stuff would no doubt be considered by the
- lawyers "not in the interests of Silicon Graphics Computer
- Systems Inc" and possibly "imply a continued association
- between SGI and the SGI employee who released the stuff is
- undesirable."
-
- No one associated with the machine sgi.com has the mandate,
- permission, time, or energy to do the moderating that would be
- necessary.
-
- There are plenty of people at other sites to do not suffer any of these
- restrictions and who are happy to host third party software.
-
-
- There is some rather old cruft in sgi.com:~ftp, but you might be amazed
- at old systems people like to run (software as well as hardware).
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-