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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PD Word Processors
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Date: 11 Oct 89 21:02:33 GMT
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In article <5229@ubc-cs.UUCP> buchanan@grads.cs.ubc.ca (John Buchanan) writes:

#>> [ someone else ]
#>>Why stupid?  Good software takes time to write, and a decent commercial
#>>product can easily be worth more than $100.
#
#I am sorry.  This reply is just to [sic] mild.

Can we talk about this somewhere else? I use several non-commercial
products which are better than corresponding commercial products in
the features that I *personally* find important -- TeX/LaTeX, gnu c,
gnu emacs (and micrognu), pgplot, et cetera. Different strokes for
different folks.


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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.