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From: ds@hollin.prime.com
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU
Message-ID: <211300007@hollin>
Date: 20 Oct 89 18:30:00 GMT
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> Written  7:03 am  Oct 19, 1989 by sja@santra.UUCP in gnu.misc.discuss
> . . .
> It seems to me that some people are saying they would like to
> contribute work to a free operating system but, for some reason, don't
> contribute to GNU.  Doesn't that strike you as odd?  Doesn't that
> suggest that just maybe there is something wrong with GNU?

No, it strikes me that the FSF folks have a network of friends who all
communicate with each other directly, through email and other means.  Since
their network is sufficient for getting GNU software written at an acceptable
rate and with acceptable quality, they don't feel the need to set up a more
general mechanism by which folks like myself (I'm an example of someone who
has wanted to write free software for FSF for years) could easily contribute
to the project.  I don't think there is anything seriously wrong with GNU or
FSF but I do think that it is understandable, given that their undertaking is
unusual, unprecedented, and not a little political in nature, that it should
stimulate our fearful imagination.

David Spector
Prime Computer, Inc.
ds@primerd.prime.com (until the layoff)
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The above is not the opinion of my employer or of FSF; it is my own.