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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Home work vs unions
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Date: 28 Jun 88 16:56:59 GMT
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Of course the difference between home computer programmers and
the cottage industry is that we would like to believe that computer
work falls into the "professional" category rather than "piecework"
and hence less subject to the abuses that the cottage industry
provides.  Doctors and Lawyers have traditionally operated out
of home offices.  As a matter of fact, the main reason that
professionals are pushed out of the home where I used to live is
that several influential developers got the zoning rules to be
interpreted strictly to forbid people from doing such so that they
had to go rent office space in an office building.

-Ron