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Subject: Re: Bill Gates on free software
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>Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:39:55 -0500
>From: Robert Napier <rnapier@CISCO.COM>
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>On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 02:09:32AM -0600, Doug Yowza wrote: [From the Gates' letter]
>>... The value of the
>>computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
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>The question I've always had about this paragraph is what computer time Gates is refering to.
The rumor I've heard many times is that they (illegally) used Harvard's PDP-10.
--David Wittenberg
dkw@cs.brandeis.edu
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