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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 20:56:11 +0000
From: Rob S. Wolfram rsw@rigel.island.nl
Subject: [9fans] DMR's OS :(
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(Crossposted to non-dutch groups)

There was (is) a thread going on about someone violating DMR's
copyright. He posted an article in the thread himself, of which
I would like to present you the headers:

   From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@bell-labs.com>
   Newsgroups: nl.comp.programmeren,nl.comp.os.linux,comp.lang.c
   Subject: Re: "The C programming Language" now online
   Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:04:36 +0000
   Organization: Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
   Lines: 11
   Message-ID: <36367BB4.7B3A@bell-labs.com>
   References: <F1I7AA.9x@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
   Reply-To: dmr@bell-labs.com
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                           ^^^^^

I have read about this happening before, but this time I witnessed
it myself. How it it possible that the very person who brought us
Unix and the C language, apparently doesn't believe enough in his
own design to use it as a client OS and uses this sorry excuse of
an OS instead? I think he really underestimates the example he is
setting with this. :(
He is still one of my heroes, but I am not very pleased right now.
I do consider this post advocacy, so I didn't cc DMR himself. But
it would be nice if he would join the forum and reply on this.

HAND,
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