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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
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Date: 6 Apr 88 12:44:36 GMT
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Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware

In article <231@unsvax.UUCP> tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
>If everyone on the net with the appropriate skills volunteered 5
>(five) hours per week of their time, we could write our own OS,
>editor, utils, etc, ... I hereby volunteer my 5.  Now, we need a good
>co-ordinator...

Please send mail to info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu.  There's plenty of work
for you to do.  GNU won't be PD, but it will be free, as are the
utilities that are already available.

>I said it was Nutty.

People have been saying that about RMS for years, but they still use
his editors :-)

None of the Newsgroups included here are really appropriate for Yet
Another Pro/Anti-GNU FlameFest, but then they haven't been appropriate
for the already-rolling OS-feature wars here, either.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob