NON-SOURCE POSTINGS CONSIDERED HARMFUL!

John P. Nelson jpn at genrad.com
Tue Jan 22 03:17:38 AEST 1991


>so let's discuss: are patches to a generally available program "source code" ?

YES!  Emphatically YES!

>                i suspect that it's a prepared file that
>the person (didn't bother to save the mail) sends to anyone
>who, in his opinion, hasn't posted "source".

Any self-appointed net-policeman who is flaming people who have posted a
valid source code (and patches are most definitely source code), should
in turn, be flamed to a crisp.

     john nelson

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