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Language spec should be public domain

To: REM@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: Language spec should be public domain
From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1985 02:06:00 -0000
Cc: COMMON-LISP@SU-AI.ARPA
In-reply-to: Msg of 1985 Nov 07 15:27:32 PST (=GMT-8hr) from Robert Elton Maas <REM at IMSSS.SU.EDU>
Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU

    Before CL can ever become very widely used (like ASCII for example),
    it must become an ANSI/CCITT/ISO standard...

I disagree totally with this view.  Lots of things are widely used that
are not blessed by these particular bureaucracies.  But I do agree with
the view that the proprietary nature of the document is hurting us, and
is hurting some more than others.

-- Scott

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