From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 17 13:17:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA28938 for current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:17:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28930 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net by covina.lightside.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tnu0L-0009YiC; Sat, 17 Feb 96 13:17 PST Received: by hamby1.lightside.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BAFD3A.79E15150@hamby1.lightside.net>; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:18:50 -0800 Message-ID: <01BAFD3A.79E15150@hamby1.lightside.net> From: Jake Hamby To: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , "'Joerg Wunsch'" Subject: RE: Hysterical Raisons Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:18:44 -0800 Encoding: 27 TEXT Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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