Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:47:03 +0300 (EEST)
From: "Adrian Gh. Oboroc aka AsH / DEVOTiON" <oboroc AT usm DOT md>
To: James Youngman <JYoungman AT vggas DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: PLUSH 3D V1.1
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On 7 Apr 1997, James Youngman wrote:

> In article <5i8lpd$75v$1 AT news3 DOT texas DOT net>, attorney AT sedona DOT net says...
> >
> >
> >Plush 3D is a portable realtime shareware 3D rendering library,
> >which is free for non-commercial use.
> >Visit http://nullsoft.home.ml.org/plush/ for more info
> 
> Yet another piece of soi-disant "free" software released without source.
> How depressing...

I agree 100% with this opinion. Authors, who distribute libraries without
source code, simply kills their production at a stage of birth. Just
compare two libs from Borland: BGI and Turbo Vision. First wasn't
distributed with sources, thus it silently died, second is very popular
even today, because enyone is allowed to see, how the code was done, to
fix bugs and so on. Distribution with sources also helps a lot with
bug-tracking and feature enhancement of libraries. The best example in
this sence is Allegro. So, releasing of precompiled libraries without
source *SUCK*. (If you don't think so, compare popularity of Allegro and
Plush3D, or SEAL audio library and MIDAS). If somebody don't want to
release source, it is good to him not to release the precompiled junk too.