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Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 19:40:18 -0500
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
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At 05:18 14-05-2000 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>In that case, research in universities should have come to a
>standstill by now.  It's not "stealing", it's "sharing". 

University researchers are paid for their work.

>Actually they always did well in basic research.  Some of the most
>important physics this century came from Russia.  They didn't 
>do well technologically because of government-controlled industries
>and lack of competition.

It was a combination of factors.

Adam


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