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From: uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: The NeWS ReNaiSSaNCe
Keywords: Put NeWS source on the Internet !
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Date: 9 Nov 90 09:02:30 GMT
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Hello, let me start with a quotation (4th of July,90):

:)	From: uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges)
:)  Keywords: Make NeWS free software !
:) 
:)  Hearing talk about a 'You see here a NeWS corpse' and such makes me
:)  think ...
:)  It may sound crazy to give NeWS away for free, but if someone
:)  takes a look at the big software standards today, you see something
:)  like NFS, X, TCP/IP or UNIX, all of which are (or were) freely
:)  available. If good stuff is on the net, everyone will use it, improve
:)  it or fix bugs (Hello 1.1) - which is very useful ! 
:)  It would be a real biggie to swap X and NeWS, wouldn't it ? At least
:)  I haven't seen a MiCS on X so far, and I guess they have a long way
:)  to go for it (XR20).

Oh man - almost there ! 

Just to give it the final touch: Free source code for the universities is
excellent, but this gets going only when the source, all the bug fixes,
new class hierarchies (Kill lite !) etc. are accessible via at least semi-
anonymous ftp, like the Brown University software. 

It is, however, sad to work on a Silicon Graphics 4D210GTX and always hear
about 'NeWS being discontinued by SGI in the next major release'. Sigh.

Yours, Henrik Klagges

STM Group
uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de