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From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt)
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)
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Date: 1 May 1996 18:42:50 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:

: 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).

I think I messed up when I was trimming the article down.  Sorry about that.

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