Dilema

John Tapsell tapselj0 at cs.man.ac.uk
Mon Mar 18 23:55:37 UTC 2002


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> That depends what it does. John, can you tell us more aobut it,
> or are you bound by a confidentiality agreement?

Well technically the university owns the IP, and I'm in negotions with them 
to get it back.  Did you see what I said earlier about roughly what it does?  
Basically makes it a _lot_ easier to write shell scripts, and makes the shell 
a lot easier to use (context sensitive help, 'clever' piping etc etc)

> I personally would be rather reluctant to used proprietary software
> for anything that matters, due to its here today, gone tomorrow
> nature.

Perhaps, but then I'm not really targetting you :)
I feel exactly the same way - and if I wasn't in my shoes, I'd be arguing for 
me to make it Free.

JohnFlux
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