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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:18:44 -0800
From:      Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "'Joerg Wunsch'" <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject:   RE: Hysterical Raisons
Message-ID:  <01BAFD3A.79E15150@hamby1.lightside.net>

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As Heikki Suonsivu wrote:

>> Are you quite sure about this?  Most of stuff in our local/bin is installed
>> from original source, not from ports.  I use ports as a last resort, not as
>> the primary source.

>You are about the only one. :)

>I use packages wherever they fit my needs, then ports, then resort to
>the icky way of finding the source myself, fighting with it to get it
>compiled, etc.

>>  Last time we used ports we got a shareware version
>> which would cost $2000 to register, for functionality I think I can arrange
>> to be written from scratch for the same price, though there already is
>> older free version (this was zmodem).

>zmodem is certainly the only one of this kind.  There should also be a
>port of the older, freeware zmodem.  Just like it has been done for
>ghostscript: you can select between the freeware version 2, and the
>shareware version 3.

Actually, both versions of Ghostscript are free, it's just that version 2 uses the GNU copyright, and version 3 uses Aladdin's copyright.

---Jake




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