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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Diana specification for Ada
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:03:47 GMT
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In article <8orn41$87t$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Mark T <mmt_taube@my-deja.com> wrote:

> In the "old days" a lot of good ideas came out of universities
and then
> disappeared into private companies instead of becoming open
source like
> they probably would today.

I really don't see that this claim is generally fair, in that
I don't think things have changed much. But in any case, the
statement with respect to DIANA is most certainly not fair,
since this work was all very open. Anyone was free to use
the approach, although in practice few did.


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