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From: michiel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Michiel Fierst van Wijnandsbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <292@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 3 Dec 88 08:31:40 GMT
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In article <5008@brspyr1.BRS.Com> miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) writes:
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:> I think that we have seen how the Soviets have cut research costs by copying
:> our Shuttle,
:
:It is NOT a copy.  It looks similar (would you care to show me a hypothetical
:shuttle design that doesn't?), but there are substantial internal
:differences--
:[...]
:                                     It works both ways, though--
:
What's wrong with that anyway. Everbody would do it provided the information.
The Japanese did to build their economy and look what happened. They have
now taken over in area's where they were copying (camera's, cars? ). Isn't
it sience's progress to read what people have done before you and extend
or improve the ideas?
Information exchange is vital for the western world. The USSR has access to
all of that (they can buy magazines etc. as well as I can). Let's make
sure we have access to their achievements so we can benifit from it just like
they do. Let's have them on the net.



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