Hard coded limits (was Re: LINK COUNT TABLE OVERFLOW)
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Sat Jul 21 06:56:03 AEST 1990
In <840 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>Sometimes I whish there were a way to put some pressure onto the
>vendors of software to *force* them to deliver the source at least
>partially...
Blame copyright law. There was a time when only literary works could
be copyrighted. Source code (which is often a work of art) could have
been included in that description.
Them somebody with not much sense decided that human-unreadable
executable binaries fitted that description too, and the world became a
much unfriendlier place.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi
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