🚀 go-pugleaf

mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.180643.24274@PA.dec.com>
>reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:

>purchase software.  Also, with PD/shareware, one tends to get "da
>source" rather than "vendor support" which in some circles is A Good
>Thing (tm).
Very little shareware is availlable with sources. And yes, it is A Good
Thing (tm) to have sources:

  - bugs can be fixed immediately (you never know if and when a vendor fixes
    bugs)
  - customizations can be made (again, you don't have to wait for the vendor)
  - it's nice to learn from other programs
  - it means that I can buy a new system without being a hostage of my old
    system (if I type my letters in WP under DOS, and I move to... say a Sun,
    then what am I going to do with my letters?)
  - often PD software is better than commercial software (GCC is for instance
    one of the best C compilers in the world, NeXT and BSDI use it too).
  - support can't be dropped and you can never be forced to upgrade if you
    don't want to.

Greetings,
Peter Busser