Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!rob From: rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Commercial GNU support maybe available soon Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 89 06:01:25 GMT References: <12720001@eecs.nwu.edu> <1311000001@upba> Sender: usenet@agate.uucp (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 In-reply-to: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 26 Aug 89 16:52:43 GMT at a party not long ago i met someone in the process of getting capital up to start a GNU support company. that is a company that would provide preconfigured BINARY distributions of GNU products for various architectures, and support (telephone, documentation and regular updates). the company would be for profit, but along the FSF guidelines, that is all the software / bug fixes would be given back to the GNU project. think of it: shrink wrap GNU software. rob -- william robertson rob@violet.berkeley.edu symbolic links are the GOTO's of filesystems