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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
Message-ID: <1454@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 5 Apr 88 01:15:03 GMT
References: <231@unsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware

IN article <231@unsvax.UUCP>, tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) wrote:
> 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, 

I gather you've never heard of Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation,
or the GNU project.  They are doing it for unix (GNU stands for
GNU is Not Unix).  Oddly enough, they didn't see the need for another
Mess-Dos.  :-)
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