John Doty wrote:
>
>Mark W. Humphries wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 2:50 am, Richard Owlett <rowl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Seems Forth gets used where goal is COMPETITIVE COMMERCIAL advantage.
>>
>> Exactly, for a business whether or not to share code is a commercial
>> decision not to be taken lightly.
>> I currently see no commercial advantage to sharing the code that most
>> differentiates our products from those of our competition. If on the
>> other hand we one day write a new device driver, or a some generic
>> utility for FreeBSD, for example, than I would have no problem
>> contributing this code to the open source community. But sharing the
>> code at the heart of our competitive advantage would be commiting
>> commercial hara-kiri.
>
>What does this have to do with Forth?
You actually wrote the above words *two minutes* after writing
"Without published code, the claims of shareable Forth code
remain unverifiable bragging"? And somehow you cannot see that
a comment about deciding whether to publish code has nothing
to do with that discussion?
Unbelievable.
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