From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f495c7652c09dd8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Does this model work ? Date: 1999/05/16 Message-ID: <7hmcu1$k8g$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 478436678 References: <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x34.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun May 16 12:16:01 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net>, jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi) wrote: > After all, with all this Open Source Software movement > nowadays, is it possible to distribute applications in source > code form (rather in bytecode form) to various devices or > stations? The idea of distributing programs in source form as the ultimate way of providing portable distribution is as old as computing itself, certainly much older than the idea of byte codes (which was popularized 20 years ago by UCSD Pascal). The open source movement did not invent the first idea, and Java did not invent the second! Yes, of course this is a practical idea, it is the cornerstone of the free software movement, and the GNU project, and has been used for all sorts of software. Indeed one way to look at Java is that it is a way of achieving some of the goals of source distribution without actually having to distribute sources, which appeals to those who want to keep their code proprietary and their sources secret. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---