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Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote:

: Wrong.  All I require for proof is the sources, the build paramters, and
: the development platform.  (I do want to be able to build exactly the
: system Microsoft claims to have released and then do a byte compare of
: the results.)

: Originally, this was the norm for Minicomputer OS.  (Actually, the norm
: was no OS. :)  I think hiding the source for the OS is doing a disservice
: to me as a consumer -- the source is the only absolutely correct
: documentation.

Do you think secretaries, accountants and 95% of the population give a 
sweet fuck for the extra disk space needed for the source of their OS? 
just so they can type letters?

If most computer users can't even type "help copy" or "man cp" and can't 
even open the book to read the documentation do you think they'll start 
using grep and vi to find out the order of parameters for their copy command?

Have you ever gone outinto the real world where users don't understand 
what the box doing between the tv and the typewriter?

: Also, I am no more the judge than you.  We are both protagonists for
: our viewpoints.  It's just that your viewpoint stinks.

So does your inability of accepting others' viewpoints.

: -- 
: Sphere.

: Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/

: Buy Free UNIX!



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