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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NeWS "open" / "standard"?
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.160645.13430@alphalpha.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 16:06:45 GMT
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In article <91164.101625BROEKHVN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, BROEKHVN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Kevin Broekhoven) writes:
> 
> In the May SunWorld, Scott McNeally
> gives an interview where he compares "NeWS to X11" as "Unix to Dos", with

Given the current growth rates of DOS and Unix actually this is probably
pretty accurate :-).
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.