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Date: 27 Feb 91 03:08:44 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 2
Message 38        Sun Feb 24, 1991
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 22:26 EST
 
Re: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)

 > My question is why are there so few PD/Shareware C systems (semi-
 > rhetorical question) and why has the Forth PD/Shareware market
 > had such a great eclipsing influence over the "professional
 > product" market?

One answer Doug is that Chuck and FORTH, Inc. "allowed" FIG to put most of
what Forth is into the public domain.  This same thing has not happened in the
C marketplace.  AT&T and other big companies maintained very strict control
over C, but Forth had no such "benifactor" to "protect" it.  One can only muse
as to what the Forth industry would be like had the roles been reversed.

DaR
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