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From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: 386 advertising on the net
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 20:01:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 20:01:00 1985
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	Perhaps the key note here is that this is not net.sources.mac 
or whatever.  There have been many postings here in the past of shareware
software developed by people on the net.  Some of us have gained a lot
by reading this notesfile.  I expect to be able to find interesting things
in here, and a little hype never hurt anyone, especially when you have
the ability to skip the note altogether (my, what these machines won't
do today! :).  If people don't like shareware in net.mac, fine.  Let them
gripe.  You can bet that for each person who complains, there are several,
perhaps more, who will sit quietly and grab the code and put it on their
machines and run it, and have the sense not to complain about a good thing.
	Intel, while not supplying free code, is supplying free information.
Perhaps what you object to is that people can learn about some new product
that comes from a company that you for some reason despise.  Are you afraid
that people will buy it and use it and it will become popular?  While Intel
chips have not been the most popular in the past for many programmers, they
have been a big factor in shaping the way we see personaly computing.
	I prefer to be able to keep up with the expansions in the industry,
especially with those advances which will effect us tomorrow.  I would 
like to thank Clif and all who believe in free information.  
	Perhaps, however, in the future, the Intel folks should give the
details on the product, leaving out the personal backpatting, and leave
it to us out here to pat them instead... (if we approve, of course)  I'm
sure that approach would reduce the number of flames, and hence some of
the more useless traffic on the net.




John W. Jabusch
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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