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From: uh311ae@LRZSUN4_7.lrz.de
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: the NeWS ReNaiSSaNCe
Keywords: Make NeWS free software !
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Date: 4 Jul 90 12:58:55 GMT
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Hearing talk about a 'You see here a NeWS corpse' and such makes me
think ...
It may sound crazy to give NeWS away for free, but if someone
takes a look at the big software standards today, you see something
like NFS, X, TCP/IP or UNIX, all of which are (or were) freely
available. If good stuff is on the net, everyone will use it, improve
it or fix bugs (Hello 1.1) - which is very useful ! 
It would be a real biggie to swap X and NeWS, wouldn't it ? At least
I haven't seen a MiCS on X so far, and I guess they have a long way
to go for it (XR20).
Sun makes its money from hardware, anyway.  

Henrik Klagges

(Postscript fonts are cracked by now, I hear 8)