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From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
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Date: 6 Mar 90 06:49:42 GMT
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In article <34812@watmath.waterloo.edu> bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) writes:
> USENET has no ideology that I have seen in my 9 years on it -- other than
> that derived from the laws of the nations it is in.

I believe that until ClariNet, UUnet and similiar operations came along,
USENET was operated by a group of people as a good thing for which they
received no compensation. That strikes me an idealogy of sorts.

Now, this idealogy has changed such that people can make a buck. I suppose
this is similiar to the commericalization of the internet. What was once
mostly socialistic, is now capitalistic. 

This is progress, I guess.



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