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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:11:52PM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote:
> [...on intimidating posts...]
> > A simple minded personal example is Eric Raymond's post to chat in
> > which he mentions VCs.  I don't have a clue what he means, so I had the
> > option of just letting it pass or post a question as to what a VC is.  I
> > am sure that is a term common to most in the community, so there I was
> > somewhat hesitant to ask about it but I did anyway.
> 
> I don't think there are anybody but Eric Raymond that know what that
> term meant.  I didn't, at least.  From context, it looked like it was
> Verylarge Companies or something like it.  (I don't think it could
> have meant 'Version Control'.  But the sentence is interesting if read
> that way :-)
> 
> It isn't in my dictionaries, either.

Venture Capitalists?  I dunno.

Mike

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