Message-ID:	<3417FDDC.1087856@a.crl.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:19:08 -0500
From:	Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Organization:	Spectrum Healthcare Services
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Are you sure you _want_ the sources?
References:	<ww03-BikHzi2751 AT netaddress DOT usa DOT net>

Joseph Morris wrote:
> 
> Are you sure that you really want the utility sources anyway?
> 
> [..]
> 
> The sources are terribly messy, and very hard to understand.
> 
> [..]
> 
> They are all tied into the legendary VersionControlSystem.
> Gene will be an old man by the time all these have been made into a
> format useful to anyone else.

:) If that's the case, we would sort of need to know how young Gene is
right now, would we?  (My guess is late 20's, that puts the completion
date at 2030's.)

> An in-joke at Caldera is "When are you going to re-write it then?"
> which is the usual comment made when someone begins editing a utility.
> 
> So there might be some anguish if the sources _were_ suddenly
> released..

Look at it another way.  I might not want to read/modify all of the
sources myself.  But I sure would feel a lot more confortable knowing
that there are fifty highly motivated people dealing with the problems
rather than three.

--
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com

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