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Mr. Ballard, 

> From: R Ballard 
> Cc: davem@staff.pnpa.com, online-news@marketplace.com,
>     Thomas_Gewecke@pcworld.com
> To: Jim_Moody@pcworld.com

> This may be what NCN is ATTEMPTING to do, but they are messing with a 
> very different environment.  Now that there is some real money to be 
> made, they want to create some sort of exclusive, proprietary product.  

	In reading the NCN announcements, I can not glean any _content_,
	let alone any information that would lead you to this conclusion.

	What leads you to this conclusion?

> It's shipping, as unsupported software.  Of course, Linux is selling more 
> copies then Microsoft can give Windows-95 away. 

	do you really mean "selling" here?

> Notice Ray Noorda is putting guns behind unix too. (chimera.com).

	I am following this effort. 

	We at Newshare are attempting to keep entry into the Internet
	market cheap, for the small guy.  Linux is ideal for this.

> What UNIX needs is a few good "Spin Doctors". :-).

	agreed.

dmo
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