Re: Scheme Programming Reference

["Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Adam Di Carlo writes:
>  > 
>  > This is incorrect.  Since government funding was used in the
>  > production of the DSSSL spec, it is therefore under public domain.
>  > 
> It may be perhaps useful to remind list members that the world has
> a number of sovereign nations, each of which has a government; that
> ISO is an international organisation; that at least one of the authors 
> of DSSSL is a UK citizen. do please lets keep the list international
> and not refer to "government".... :-}

I assumed that Adam meant that there existed a government somewhere that
provided funding, and hence I took no offence.

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Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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