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From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
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Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime
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Date: 9 Aug 90 15:27:58 GMT
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>In article <14443@wpi.wpi.edu> dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu (Duane D Morin) writes:
>>But today people don't circulate
>> software for the good of al concerned, they do it for personal gain.

      There are definitely more people writing useful, free software today
than at any previous time.  It's just a smaller percentage of the total.
In what some people here seem to think of as the "golden age of hacking",
the phenomenon was confined to a few dozen people at each of a few major
universities, simply because one needed access to big iron to write anything.

					John Nagle