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From: richard@bud.UUCP (richard karasik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
Message-ID: <138@bud.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 01:53:10 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@bud.UUCP (richard karasik)
Organization: Arete Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA.
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Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware


Sounds like the kind of undertaking that could catch a lot of interest.
Heck -we have people here posting evaluations of products all the time
including shareware. We could draw on those for lessons learned.

We could take a hard look at the issues of multi system portability
(and perhaps break our eyeballs), but the idea has a certain flair to
it.

What pieces does anyone think we need? I mean an OS is a bit much to
go multimachine with, but tools are another thing entirely.
How about the best of all tools -with some team just working on and
presenting "what's best" -much like the voting for a new group.

ANother thing to consider is the impact of windowing systems on
the scope of the tools we can hope for. If nothing else -we can
end up with a shopping list to beat up sleazeware manufacturers
about. (ie buy one disk now and open the package to find that
you only need another 40 diskettes to make the tool almost really 
useful). 

Jump on in, it beats collecting bellybutton lint.

Richard



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