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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
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Subject: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1, part 1 of 15, etc
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Date: 5 Jan 90 18:57:22 GMT
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In article <6734@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Primarily because I'm out to set a standard, not to make a buck.  Those
>who try to make bucks very frequently find that they neither make bucks
>nor set standards.  A commercial product has increase the standard of
>living by a certain percentage to be viable, and I seem to specialize
>in doing things that improve the standard of living just a little less
>than that magical percentage.  In other words, I tend to write things
>that people wouldn't pay much for because they already have other ways
>to do it.

>But if it's free, and noticeably better, most everyone wants it, and nobody
>has an excuse for staying in the dark ages.

>If ksh had been free, I suspect that very few of us would be using csh
>any more.  If patch had been a commercial offering, you wouldn't find
>it on many machines yet.


Larry,

	I'd like to publically thank you for all the work you've done 
in making these fine tools available to the USENET community. I don't
like to think what my job would be like without your tools. I think that
I use most of your packages here, and (with the exception of rn) use
them on a daily basis.

Thanks.

aem

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							- Emile Zola