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From: dalj@utgpu.UUCP
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Subject: Network, you say?
Message-ID: <1987Apr5.124224.22886@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 12:42:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 12:42:24 1987
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Reply-To: dalj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (David Lloyd-Jones)
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If this is a network, howcome there's nobody Japanese on it?

Yes, all,literally ALL, Japanese university people speak English. That's
why they have no difficulty exporting the goods and importing the ideas.
 
Rumour of the month around the economics department is that 1986 was the 
first year in which Japan ran a positive balance of trade in paid-for
information -- songs, patents, licensing, authors' rights, all that good stuff.
So that's the end of the "they just copy from other people" phase....

                         Cheers,
                               -dlj.