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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (45894)6/2/2000 9:49:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Respond to of 74651
 
This isn't true. It may have been true at one time. --- At the point where young Bill Joy and friends started availing the UNIX source code after writing the TCP/IP stack and putting the OS package together for Arpanet, open standards became the way things worked. Value added needn't be proprietary. We're finding that out more and more each day. -JCJ