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From: murthy@alsvid.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
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Subject: Re^2: Actual case of hoarding public domain code?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 20:10:19 GMT
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emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>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.

University Ingres

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