#: 7628 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Oct-90  14:56:03
Sb: #uucp
Fm: Robert A. Larson 75126,723
To: all

Newsgroups: compuserve.os9.comm Subject: Re: UUCP frustrations References:
 

[I've also sent this message to Mark Griffith via Internet/bitnet gateway.]

In article  76703.4255@compuserve.com (Steve Wegert)
writes:

>I'm sorry you found the UUCP port not to your liking.  I believe I did mention
>a couple times that this was the OS9/6809 port.

I am quite willing to start from os9/6809 source code, and that was what I
expected.  The announcments on compuserve made no mention of it being 6809
specific or object code only.  (The header displayed by the browse command did
mention it, but I knew I wanted UUCP for my machine, so I didn't look there
before downloading.)

>As for the lack of source code....I thought about this a lot and decided that
>the need to keep some control over the source and the port outweighed the
>desire to upload them.

I guess I've just never felt this "need to keep control".  Modified versions
should be labled as such, but that does not mean they should not be
distributed.

>  I think this is resonable given the year I spent doing >the port and the
time and money spent testing, talking to beta testers, etc.

I've spent lots of time on some pretty big projects too.  Beleive me, mg 2a
beta testing on 8 different operating systems was non-trivial. (+1 if you count
cpm/68k which was given up on fairly early, -1 if you don't count msdos which
missed the release deadline and was added after.)

> As I mentioned in the docs, anyone wanting the source code just needs to >
drop me a line and include $5 for the cost of the disk and postage.

There is no such mention in the supplied documentation.  (Yes, I did read it.) 
If I had you would have your $5 by now.  The copyright file requires such a
notice, but there is none.

>I also question your mentioning viruses.  Since I nor anyone I know has seen
or >heard of an OS9 virus, I think it kinda unresonable for you to suggest that
I >might put one in the upload.

I do not believe you would INTENTIONALY spread a virus.  Do you believe

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