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Aucbvax.1889 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Lars.Ericson@CMU-10A Tue Jun 23 17:30:58 1981 Re: Arpanet usage The use of the ARPANET for informal discussion of computer science-related issues is a primary win. It is clear that such discussion is beneficial to ongoing government research projects -- DARCOM and Office Automation, for example, are well represented on the WorkStation mailing list.

Mr. Liddle also seems to forget that the reason PARC efforts are so immensely saleable these days is precisely BECAUSE of their participation and open-ness (as opposed to IBM, say) in the ARPA/university research community, and not in spite of it.

Mr. Liddle's Xerox policy announcement represents the sort of irrelevant (to ARPANET interests) administrative miserlyness that we may come to expect from Xerox now that the 3-piece suits have brought PARC to market.

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