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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <298@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 88 14:44:32 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <19303@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In article <19303@clyde.ATT.COM> rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>If someone would pass this on to Richard Stallman I'd appreciate it because
>I'd be interested in his responses -- hopefully he's reading this now.
[followed by various criticisms of GNU and the FSF]

Richard Stallman doesn't have time to read the news, and he has given up
trying to defend his ideas.  He is going to write GNU and he hopes that
people will find it useful.

I suspect that GNU will be successful if only because user groups will pay
for GNU to be ported to their machines.

-- 
-russ
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