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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