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- From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Commercial support for perl?
- Message-ID: <3820@moscom.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 13:22:41 GMT
- References: <1840@ltb.ltb.bso.nl>
- Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
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- wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
- : If I sell support for perl etc and use the net for help if I do not know the
- : answer am I just acting as a combined "interested programmer with net access"
- : for those companies or am I misusing the net for personal gain?
-
- Isn't that what most of the people who ask questions on the various supportish
- groups doing? If people are using a tool where they work and ask for support,
- they're doing so to both the benefit of their workplace and their own (enhancing
- their value to their employer).
-
- Bill
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- Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
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