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From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: No GNUs is good news
Message-ID: <340@wjh12.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 01:39:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 01:39:38 1983
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It seems wasteful to me for so many people to spend their time duplicating
existing work, as they would if they wrote GNU, particularly in a field
with so much money floating around.  Also, the operating system and standard
utilities themselves are not so expensive, at least from UniSoft or someone
like that; another big problem is the price of other software, applications
packages and such, which are not part of any UNIX distribution.  For GNU to
handle those, it would have to be an ongoing effort which would duplicate
any piece of commercial software as soon as it comes out.  Would you want to
work on such an effort?  I wouldn't.

My only alternative suggestion is to form a software co-op, at least among
academic computer sites, which would get quantity discounts for software.
I have no idea of whether this is feasable.  Probably not.

	Sam Kendall		  {allegra,ihnp4}!wjh12!kendall
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