Thus it was written in the epistle of Doug Becker,
> I will send the reference privately, but am uncomfortable with putting it on
> a public forum because of the verbage about not copying any of the Gartner
> Group's documents in any form.
>
> I'm surprised that the Cobol Report Newsletter felt free to send the URL to
> everyone on their mailing list.

I know that there is a lot of settling-out which still has to happen wrt
copyright on the net, but I expect that in the end, it will mirror fairly
closely the rules for academic use of "traditional" articles.  In specific, I
doubt that providing a URL will be considered copying.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I
have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I
will move the world.
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