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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!news.stolaf.edu!lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu!johnsonm
  2. From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
  4. Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan8.044917.11474@news.stolaf.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Jan 93 04:49:17 GMT
  7. References: <1ic3o7INNmep@uwm.edu> <1993Jan6.141803.2046@athena.mit.edu>
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  9.     <1993Jan7.165301.2889@news.stolaf.edu> <KENJI.93Jan8110143@daemun.rcac.astem.or.jp>
  10. Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu
  11. Followup-To: comp.os.coherent
  12. Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN  USA
  13. Lines: 17
  14. In-Reply-To: kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp's message of 8 Jan 93 02:01:43 GMT
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  17. In article <KENJI.93Jan8110143@daemun.rcac.astem.or.jp> kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake) writes:
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  19.    ]   Please don't poison the air like this.
  20.  
  21.    Porting something is worth being considered a creative activity. And
  22.    people who look down on porting often haven't done it by themselves.
  23.  
  24. I was refering to his seeming implication that MWC was acting
  25. illegally, not to porting.  I have NO problems with MWC using code
  26. legally, and was merely stating that I didn't think that they would
  27. use it illegally by violating the copyright.
  28.  
  29. Can we cut this thread, please?  There's been far too much on it
  30. already...
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  32. michaelkjohnson
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