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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VNET.IBM.COM!nicho
  2. From: nicho@VNET.IBM.COM
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
  4. Subject: Re: Why isn't everything PD ?y
  5. Message-ID: <9208180911.AA20076@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 09:34:57 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug16.112542.22758@cs.utwente.nl> <1992Aug17.094849.10128@waikato.ac.nz> <2BkG0pj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk> <1992Aug18.095919.10153@waikato.ac.nz>
  8. Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
  9. Reply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com
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  12. In <1992Aug18.095919.10153@waikato.ac.nz> mcg@waikato.ac.nz writes:
  13. >expense incurred by, say John, is the electricity/coffee used in making the
  14. >prog.
  15. > He neither incurrs the expense of supplying a disc or return postage (maybe
  16.    <sigh> You obviously don't write complex programs, nor write them
  17. often. The single biggest expense is software is the developers time.
  18. Why don't you try and write all the PD software you use for yourself,
  19. and then see whether you think it's worth a few quid.
  20.  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  21.                ** Of course I don't speak for IBM **
  22. Greg Nicholls ... nicho@vnet.ibm.com or nicho@cix.compulink.co.uk
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