Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Richard Stallman Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 89 16:52:49 GMT References: Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 36 In-reply-to: vohra@uts.amdahl.com's message of 10 Jun 89 05:35:15 GMT In vohra@uts.amdahl.com (KC) writes: > [Questions about Richard Stallman's presence on "the net" and his job.] Mr Stallman most certainly is on "the net", if you mean the Internet. He does not have time to read USENET, however, which is why he hasn't contributed anything to all the recent talk of GNU in comp.unix.wizards. He can be reached at rms@ai.mit.edu if you would like to talk to him yourself. He earns his living by computer consultation part of the year and lives off of that revenue and personal gifts the rest of the year while he works on GNU software. They talk about him as some object of debate because many consider him extremist, and extremists are debatable. > BTW, just to carry this ridiculous trivia to its extreme, I pronounce > GNU "guhnoo" and hope that others do too, because "nyoo" sounds too > much like "new". No flame wars on this, please. Just wonder if > others do too. GNU is meant to have the G pronounced according to Richard. Matthew Weiner's news reader for Emacs, Gnews, is also supposed to have the G pronounced according to Matthew. GNUS, another reader by Masanobu Umerin, is _not_ meant to have the G pronounced according to Masanobu. I rather dislike the difference which Masanobu has elected, but it is his code ... > KC, not Pavan. Something I have been wondering for a while -- is KC a different person from Pavan who is just using Pavan's account or is KC what Pavan prefers to be called? (Please reply by mail, KC.) Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "I realize the Internet isn't the whole world, but it is the center of it." -- Greg Woods