[A6] OS source (again)

[David Evans]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:13:12PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
> 
> Perhaps if we made a coordinated effort asking them to release the OS, 
> they would consider it -- a petition, or something like that -- it helps 
> everyone out and I don't think that Alesis has anything to lose -- most 
> of the proprietary stuff is in the hardware, I imagine.
> 

  A petition won't do the trick...one would have to develop a business case
for why they should do this.  Remember, it would take them time, which costs
money: technical people would have to get the stuff into a suitable form
for distribution, somebody would likely have to write up a little note about
constructing a build environment, lawyers would have to give their OK, etc.
It's not as easy as some of us would like.

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