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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.news.group,net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Can the OS-9 traffic move out of net.micro.68K?
Message-ID: <926@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 20:09:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 20:09:19 1985
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: Who Pays the Bills?

In article <6433@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <1214@cbdkc1.UUCP> daleske@dkc1.UUCP ( John Daleske x4335 3E296 RAA) writes:
>>First, state which OS to you is "real" and why.  Perhaps we should
>>petition for forming net.os and discuss it there.
>
>This is easy. State the OS that you are reading this msg on, the OS
>whose supporters pay many thousands of dollars per site per month to
>move such msgs around. Now explain to them what they get out of
>moving your irritating OS-9 traffic around.
>
> Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720

     Paying the bills is an interesting point Phil.  Have you ever
noticed how many cites are Schools?  As for the Canadian Schools,
including University of Toronto, and University of Waterloo and a few
others on the net, I can tell you who pays the bills.  *I* do.
As a taxpayer, I and millions of other Canadians across Canada provide
almost all the funding for Canadian schools of higher education.
Nobody asked me what software these schools would use.  In the US
there's a fair amount of Gov. funding too, but have you ever asked
an alumnae association what kind of software a school should use?
Heck they probably wouldn't be competent to comment on it anyway.

                                        Cheers! -- Jim O.

PS:--I agree.  This stuff should have a place of it's own.

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