Subject: Re: Open Source in the UK (Was Re: Advantages of lisp over ML?)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/07/22
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.prolog
Message-ID: <7n5ua9$3dbdd@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Aaron Sloman <Aaron.nospam.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
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| Moreover, when universities are all strapped for cash, there is a
| temptation to try to make money from saleable products of research
| instead of freely sharing them with the research community.
| In the end that's counter productive.
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(*sigh*) As the entire history of Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla (or should that
be Mosaic/Mozilla/Netscape?) and the lawsuit between NCSA & Netscape ought
to have shown us...


-Rob

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