Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> Simply not true.  Even in college back in the early 90's, most of the 
> software that was installed on our Sun systems was precompiled binaries, 
> not built from source.

  Especially true since Unix and Unix software started as proprietary,
closed-source commercial systems. The open source mentality didn't prevail
until well into the 90's.

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                                                          - Warp

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