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  < I don't want to sound abusive, but why this "university only"
policy? We (BBN) have contributed to publicly available Appletalk
(and other Macintosh) software, and I'm working on permission to
contribute more. I don't see how you can justify treating part of
the research community (universities) differently from the rest.>

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Dan,
      I could not agree with you more. But the Office of Technolgy
Licensing at Stanford imposes certain restrictions on what we can 
or cannot do. I do not set the policy and just convey it (also take
all the abuse from people hurt by the policy !). I'll talk to my director
to see if we anything can be done about the policy. I'm glad that you
raised the issue, though.

      I remember a long debate about six months ago on pcip discussion
group. After lot of discussion people seemed to think that universities
should not be in this sort of business anyway. I sort of disagree in the 
sense that many departments in universities have limited funds and, many
times, their options are limited to free-software or no software.


raman