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and furthermore people can and do use it commercially.


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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:49:13 GMT

Eric de Redelijkheid wrote:
> Then why is it for sale? To hurt users? If it is just an excercise in
> building a distributed operating system, why let  it out of the lab?

So that people who can appreciate it have the opportunity to
experiment with it.
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