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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id gALJY3s07097
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:34:03 -0700 (MST)
  5. Message-Id: <200211211934.gALJY3s07097@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
  6. From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
  7. X-Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
  8. Subject: Re: I know why Icon isn't popular.
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:06 -0500
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  25.  
  26. In <55640c47.0211200611.6c801821@posting.google.com>, on 11/20/2002
  27.    at 06:11 AM, jleger@afslogistics.com (Jonathan Leger) said:
  28.  
  29. >Well, the problem with that is that Unix bigots would almost never
  30. >PAY for anything that has to do with software development to begin
  31. >with. 
  32.  
  33. Have you looked at how expensive some of the Unix software is? The
  34. *bsd and Linux communities may be used to free software, but the Unix
  35. community is used to paying big bucks.
  36.  
  37. -- 
  38.      Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
  39.      Atid/2, Team OS/2, Team PL/I
  40.  
  41. Any unsolicited commercial junk E-mail will be subject to legal
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  44.  
  45. I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to
  46. domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me.  Do not
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