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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: FTP defn of SGML
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.143640.14268@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:36:40 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.134332.24815@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Sep29.003132.17644@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <BZS.90Sep29162136@world.std.com> <1990Sep30.191643.13942@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <1990Sep30.191643.13942@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>The paper documents are indeed a
>good source of income, and protecting that income is the express purpose of
>forbidding machine readable document formats.  

Why not auction the standard?
Sotheby's would do a great job,
with a nubile lady holding up the latest version of SGML.

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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie