Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]

2001-11-29 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:40 AM 11/30/01 +0800, csj wrote: >On Friday 30 November 2001 05:44, John Griffiths wrote: >> At the risk of wandering WAAYY out into metaphysics... >> >> surely the novel is a binary? it can't be usefully modified and can >> only be read as-is. >> >> It'd have to be made available as a text f

Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]

2001-11-29 Thread csj
On Friday 30 November 2001 05:44, John Griffiths wrote: > At the risk of wandering WAAYY out into metaphysics... > > surely the novel is a binary? it can't be usefully modified and can > only be read as-is. > > It'd have to be made available as a text file (or maybe printed with > double spacing to

Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]

2001-11-29 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:13 PM 11/29/01 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >csj writes: >> We rarely get to see the source code for a novel. > >Just as well, since none of us have the compiler anyway. > >> The source for a novel is the writer's draft or revision marks. > >When you release Free Software do you include all your