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From: tb@mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad)
Date: 1998/04/17
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tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes:

> For large categories of software, the majority of customers don't want,
> don't need, and could not make effective use of, source code, whereas one's
> competitors could make effective use of it.  As long as that remains true,
> a company can, all other things being equal, make more money keeping their
> source secret.

Those people STILL have a benefit to source code, which is that there
will be a free market for support.  That means that they will be able
to get their bugs fixed.

Thomas