Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!nate From: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Open Software Foundation (Actually, FSF) Keywords: osf Message-ID: <2254@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 19 May 88 15:53:58 GMT References: <5412@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <5469@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 30 In article <5469@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes: >What a waste. Could you imagine what those resources could do applied to >the goals of the Free Software Foundation? In the February edition of GNU's Bulletin, page 4, there is an announcement that is rather interesting, especially when compared to the $90M that the OSF is starting with: Our First Large Donation ------------------------ Software Research Associates, a Japanese software house, has donated $10,000 to the GNU project. In addition they plan to send us a Sun-like SONY workstation and lend us a staff programmer for 6 months. This represents the influence of Kouichi Kishida, who organized the Japanese Sigma project (to stimulate Unix competence in Japan), only to conclude later that the project had gone astray and that a "grass roots movement" was needed instead. We hope to be this movement. [Copyright (C) 1988 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.] --woodstock -- "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?" ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|pur-ee|qantel|amd}!intelca!mipos3!nate : nate@mipos3.intel.com ATT : (408) 765-4309