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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: What USENET can do and what it can't
Message-ID: <2329@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 21:51:39 GMT
References: <2951@looking.UUCP> <21716@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <21716@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
>read it.  (isn't it wonderful some people don't charge for their software, 
>unlike other people do for their jokes. 1/2 a :-). 
>

I think it's worth pointing out that at least some of the "free" software
floating around the net was done by people working under government
contracts, and as such couldn't be sold. Only given away.


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