shrugs Of course, in the early days of unix, you got the OS in source form, but those were long gone by then. AFAIK, a lot of independently developed utilities

shrugs Of course, in the early days of unix, you got the OS in source form, but those were long gone by then. AFAIK, a lot of independently developed utilities were distributed in source form, in part because it was common to have to edit the sources and compile yourself if you weren't on the exact same architecture as the author. But that's just what I've heard.