Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!lance From: lance@kodak.UUCP (Dan Lance) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Richard Stallman Keywords: stallman gnu Message-ID: <1925@kodak.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 89 22:13:48 GMT References: Reply-To: lance@kodak.UUCP (Dan Lance) Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY Lines: 43 In article vohra@uts.amdahl.com (Pavan Vohra) writes: >OK. A couple of questions: how does Mr. Stallman get paid? He is not paid a salary by the FSF. His income comes from software consulting and from donations by people interested in suporting his work. >And is he on the net? Try rms@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu. >Does he have a job? Does it consist of GNU? Only GNU? He spends much of his time on GNU work; he also does software consulting on the side to provide some income. >How come we are all talking about him like some kind >of object of debate and prediction (a la Bush, Deng, IBM, etc.) >when he might be on the net? (If he is he is awfully quiet.) He mostly posts to the gnu.* groups, which you may or may not get. >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. I think the FSF wants you to pronounce the G in GNU for this very reason. >KC, not Pavan. Huh? >--- >Pavan Vohra {..hplabs|ames|ihnp4|decwrl}!amdahl!vohra >Amdahl Corporation >Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3470 >--- trivially yours, --drl Daniel R. Lance / drl@kodak.com / Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY