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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: Re^2: Why do people want PD software?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.052511.9327@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <3@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 05:25:11 GMT
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- Peter Busser writes
- > [having sources] means that I can buy a new system
- > without being a hostage of my old system (if I type my
- > letters in WP under DOS, and I move to... say a Sun, then
- > what am I going to do with my letters?)
- >
- Buy the SUN or whatever version of WP and keep right on
- going. At least, that's what I did when I got my NeXT. WP
- is file-compatible across platforms.
-
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- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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