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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: hoarding Unix
Message-ID: <1528@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 15:28:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 15:28:50 1986
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In article <1082@ihdev.UUCP> dlr@ihdev.UUCP (55224-D. L. Ritchey) writes:
>			...  The so-called "hoarding of information" and
>"wrongness" of someone selling software for a profit are what has
>produced much of the software used to operate and use the network we are
>now reading article from.

Actually, one reason Unix runs this network is because AT&T was
prohibited from selling it!  As a result, they gave it to universities,
and it gathered a following.  Based on what AT&T has done since they
*can* sell it now, we are all lucky it got a start before the, uh,
competitive types killed that nice research result.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
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