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From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.163038.5029@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd."
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:30:38 GMT
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phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) writes:
: In article <1992Aug6.175618.20419@gateway.novell.com> terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
: Other big builders who had made all of their money building jails,
: decided to band together to create a bulldozer which they called the
: "Open House Foundation" (not to be confused with the _Free_ House
: Foundation) to counteract the threat that Betty & Bill's joint venture
: might dominate the market for edifices.  OHF based their house design
: on Rick's.  OHF was never intended to build houses; they do sell kits,
: but mostly they sell just windows.

I think you left out that what OHF really sells are new and untried 
innovations in house building.. ie: They will sell you unique forms
of new plumbing and electricity but you need to build the foundation
and walls yourself.

: Recently Bill has decided to sell his houses without doorknobs (``Not
: everyone needs doorknobs, and its more "open" to not charge people who
: don't need doorknobs for them'').
: 
: I think I'll go live in a tent.

Actually, you can buy a tent from a corporation called MicroHouse.  Their
tents are small so even though you have a HUGE plot of land, you can
only put one tent on it at a time.. And once you have the tent set up,
you can have children but only one family member may be awake in the tent
at a time; everyone else must sleep. But be careful; occasionally, these
tents will fall down inexplicably.
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