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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Actual case of hoarding public domain code?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 19:17:53 GMT
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Macsyma.
The queueing system (MQS? can't remember the acronym).
Matlab.

Not to say that the "evil software hoarders" that sell or distribute
these fine software packages aren't selling useful things, or that
each of these fits the bill exactly; but in each case there's a
core of free stuff wrapped with a thicket of copyright.

--Ed