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When the VVS Project team first convened and began to share examples of valuable viable software, we soon realized that the vast majorities of the successes were pieces of software originally designed for uses other than undergraduate instruction. Because their origins and chief market were in the larger world (outside pure instruction), we called them "worldware."
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