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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:57:29 -0700
Organization: Me
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John Goerzen wrote:
]
] Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt (rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu) wrote:
] : Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
] :
] : : ] Too short sighted. Did Netscape go and write a Word6 compatible
] : : ] WWW browser? No. Applications *don't* live forever (Word6
] : : ] cannot load Word3 documents, for example).
] :
] : Yeah, but Netscape isn't a word processor. Besides, if
] : Netscape *could* read Word 6 files directly as "web pages",
] : it would be a hell of a feature.
Part of the above is misattributed to me.
Obviously, I wrote the portion following the second colon, not in
the brackets text (ie: none of it, my stuff was entirely removed,
so should the attribution be).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.