🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <92135.201105AHESS@auvm.american.edu> Anemarie Hess <AHESS@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>     Having the time, disk space, and patience to recompile the sources
>is a significant deterrent for many users in adopting gnu software.  Only
>a small percentage of even experienced computer users have the time and
>the expertise to get a number of gnu packages functional on a specific
>system (e.g., getting libg++ 2.0 running on SCO OTD is not trivial).
>Binary only ftp sites would help intice new users.

Why does the FTP site have to be binary *only* for it to be helpful?  If an
FTP site provides sources *and* binaries, people who don't want to
recompile it themselves can download just the binaries.  The GPL simply
requires that anyone who can get the binaries must also be able to get the
sources if they want them.

Making the sources unavailable only makes things easier for the FTP site,
not the users.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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