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• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: Near and Far (Was RE: A parentless elemen t that is not the document node - how?)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:07:03 -0400
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> So the value of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, 
> and Hofstadter are zero unless we read them?

They aren't *code*.  I said code, and that's what I meant.
The best indication of this is the discontinued-software bin,
where old software is sold at about the media cost.  People aren't
willing to pay anything for software that's been end-of-lifed.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
"But no living man am I!  You look upon a woman.  Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.
You stand between me and my lord and kin.  Begone, if you be not deathless.
For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him."

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