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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:40:39 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape story
Message-ID:  <20010222094039.B9337@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200102220925.CAA10847@usr05.primenet.com>
References:  <20010222075131.A9337@hand.dotat.at> <200102220925.CAA10847@usr05.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>I was trying to use it to describe the mutually arrived at
>community, which I meant in terms of a communications forum,
>not the mindshare that competing ideas in that forum can grab.

Yes, that was clear, and I've seen it used in that way elsewhere.

>When I think of Schelling points first, then the examples that
>come to mind first is the "README" file; there was no convention
>in which communication between companies and customers both
>decided that the file with important last minute things in it
>would be named "README"; it just sort of emerged.

Yes, that's a nice example :-)

Tony.
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