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From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud)
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Subject: Re: xwebster
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Date: 11 Sep 89 18:24:02 GMT
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In article <MUJICA.89Sep8193324@ra.cs.ucla.edu>, mujica@ra.cs.ucla.edu
(S. Mujica) writes:
> The story that I have heard (which seems to be true...) is that the on
> line webster is a copy of Webster's 7th Collegiate Dictionary
> (Copyright (C) 1963 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.) that was created at
> System Development Corporation under a government contract in the
> early 70s.

	Hmm, under government contract you say?  Would that imply
	that maby it really is public domain since it was our
	tax dollars that paid for it?

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