Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:57:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Jim Jackson <jj AT scs DOT leeds DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT verisim DOT com>, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jim Jackson wrote:

> Don't want to be picky or anything - but....
> Don't people get just a little worried by being offered just a binary
> like this. The one thing I was hoping the opendos world would open up was
> stuff distributed with source - so that you can see what the program does
> and can recompile it yourself. That is one of the joys of the Linux world.

All will come in time...  OpenDOS & DJGPP will undoubtedly make
the "available sources" thing a reality.  I think within 5 years,
"Open" technology will become the norm across platform.  The only
exception will be programs written that need lots of commercial
tools.  IMHO.

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