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From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: carridge return
Keywords: sick
Message-ID: <1991May13.122201.6505@sics.se>
Date: 13 May 91 12:22:01 GMT
References: <3191@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> <5708@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Sender: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
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In-Reply-To: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)

In article <5708@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>...  Certainly I have ties of affection to Quintus, but it has been
>a long time since I had any money from them. 

Today I got a pamphlet from MIT press together with the LP newsletter.
In the presentation of your book "The Craft of Prolog" (which I will
buy, btw) it says: "He [ROK] is also consultant to Quintus Computer
Systems Inc."

This may be incorrect, but you can hardly blame people for believing
that you *are* getting money from then.

> An Australian representative of BIM
>tried to sell me a copy of "Prolog from BIM" a while back, but when I asked
>if I could buy a copy of the manual, they said that it was company policy
>not to let anyone have a manual who wasn't buying the product.

This is absolutely amazing! If it is true, I wouldn't buy any BIM
products.
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