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To: JDN who wrote (14571)	3/2/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: QwikSand	of 64865

No question its good for the World, now is it good for US.... IMHO I don't think there's any question there either, JD, assuming there are enough people out there who will pick up this astoundingly valuable free information and use it. Every such person is going to be creating business for Sun along several different paths: eventual licensing fees (you know the "free" part kind of disappears if you base a commercial product on the material), momentum for SPARC vs. Intel, ISV interest, and others I can't even think of. The billions in accrued R&D that Sun is making available free to academics and entrepreneurs could "sparc" a whole cluster of startups, each of which potentially benefits Sun sooner or later...even the ones that don't make it. I think I heard one analyst call it a "brilliant idea". I think that's what it is. Regards, --QwikSand

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