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Re: UUCICO for Windows and OS/2

#3192
From: Steve Frampton
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:16
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bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:

> tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann) writes:
> 
> > free.  Furthermore, if the entire source code is given to me, I will
> > pay the $120.00 fee (or whatever it is) to Tom Dell for the source and
> > I will still make the OS/2 version available to him only for 
> > distribution with the Waffle package.  I want nothing out of this but
> > the ability to run this BBS as a native OS/2 program.
> 
> You should be discussing this with Tom, not us. If you send him the $120,
> I suspect that you'll have bought the source, with the exceptions as are
> noted in the docs.                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Exactly.  So what good is the source to the man if he doesn't get 100% of
them!?  How is he expected to port over to OS/2 (or Windows) unless he
gets them all?

Why is Tom ignoring over 2,000,000 users of OS/2, and untold millions
of Windows users?

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
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Subject: Re: UUCICO for Windows and OS/2
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Date: 25 Jan 93 16:16:03 GMT
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