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Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)

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From: Matt Mora
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 17:17
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In article <BAUMGART.91Jun25233314@esquire.esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
>
>Back to the movies: assume we're talking about seeing Terminator 2 or
>Robocop 2.  Both are action films, so they're at least as similar as
>Word and WordPerfect are.  At least with software you can, in fact,
>preview it on someone else's machine.  Can't do that with the movies,
>so perhaps sneaking in to a theater and paying only after, say, 90
>minutes is more supportable.

What a great idea. Maybe they should bring intermission back to the 
movies. You get to see the first part of the movie for free. If after
intermission you want to see the end, then you pay to see the last
half of the movie. 



I guess this doesn't belong here so I'll stop now.

Matt

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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
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Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
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Date: 26 Jun 91 17:17:04 GMT
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