Moin,
>> First the "Falcon"-TNC. The problem,
>> deduced from the description, seems to be lack of programming knowledge.
Indeed, it was turbo-pascal-source and thats easier to setup then gcc
(at least in 1992 it was).
>> Obviously the people who did the ` slight modifications within the software'
>> never heard off diff and patch utilities. Usually one's modifications can
>> be applied to newer versions of a program with few or no modifications at all.
They didn't want to.
And many parts of the mainstream code had been rewritten meanwhile.
>Not true. And the original assumption was that poeple tend to keep their
>hands off materia they don't understand. That's also not true.
This could happen to Linux too. Just heard a rumor, that MS has
started to port their offics to linux? Bingo.
Gruss,
Walter
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