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>
>What is going to happen to the public distribution of Modula3
>that the Olivetti Research Center in Menlo Park was handling,
>now that Olivetti has closed it down and fired all but six of
>the staff?
>

I talked to David Roode, who is inheriting the Modula-3 and other projects
that were dropped, yesterday afternoon and he said that it should be
available after a period of transition while he figures out what is
going on.

Yesterday's mail also contained another license agreement to sign which
was sent out before the firing of everyone.  I managed to catch Alice Munz,
the admin assistant who wrote the letter, in her office and she said that
she thought it would be made in the public domain.  The new license
agreement was needed since most people sent in copies made off of the net
and the lawyers wanted ones that Olivetti themselves sent out so they
didn't have to read each one to see if someone had made a slight change ...
not a totally unreasonable request.

In any case, David said to send back in the license agreement and things
should be taken care of.

Why doesn't the first one to actually receive a copy broadcast to the net
so we know when the process starts working?

Tom.

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