Re: Publicly funded software development

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00

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Clancy Dalebout  <fleegix@shell2.aracnet.com> wrote:
>For the sake of argument, what innovations in corporate-developed software
>do not have some sort of "freeware" precedent? 

The best example I know of is Karmarkar's (sp?) ellipsoidal algorithm
for solving linear programming problems.  This was done at Bell Labs
and initially the algorithm wasn't published but was just made available
in proprietary form.

(actually Bell Labs produced quite a bit of stuff, but then they operated
like a well-funded university in those days).

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From: jbuck@best.com (Joe Buck)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development
Date: 1998/10/07
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