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From: del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anti-Commercialism (was Re: File packaging and compression)
Message-ID: <1018@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 88 02:20:50 GMT
References: <259@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <572@flyer.apctrc.UUCP> <1885@hoqax.UUCP> <587@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: del@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <587@flyer.apctrc.UUCP> zgel05@flyer.UUCP (George E. Lehmann) writes:
>earlier comments by many have implied.  And I still maintain that we are
>completely dependent on commercial products in many areas (including compilers
>as mentioned above), and nobody is complaining about those...

The reason *I* wouldn't complain about a compiler is that if, suddenly, for
some reason, I could no longer use that particular compiler I could easily
switch to another. The difference with a file archiver is that if I suddenly
can't use a particular archiver, I may not even be able to *read* my files!

-- 
del (Erik Lindberg) 
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