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From: rmpinchback@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
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Date: 7 Apr 88 14:10:22 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, and leave IBM, Apple, HP, and everyone else in the dust.  Okay, 
... stuff
>I said it was Nutty.

   Not such a nutty idea... It might be hard to coordinate, but if we could
split the project into small pieces, like one whole, complete program being
done by each person (for small utilities), or one major module per person
(for large packages, languages, OS), then it just might be possible.  Providing,
that is, that we could agree on WHAT was to be done, HOW it was to be done,
and HOW to maintain the resultant code.

   Comments, anybody?


          Reid M. Pinchback
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