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Article #12197Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU TeX 0.80 (beta)
From: Paul Vojta
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <36A8B5CB.F1F2B529@urbanophile.com>, Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com> wrote: >Peter Seebach wrote: >> Essentially, the problem is, you can't wait until someone fulfills your goals >> and then say "ah-hah! That's my goal, therefore, I can put my name on it." > >Did you just beam into this planet? The publicly stated goal of the GNU >project has always been to create a free, Unix compatible operating system. >I suggest you try reading the GNU manifesto. Nobody suddenly jumped up with >the goal of writing a free operating system after it became a reality. OK, so the problem is, you can't publicly announce a goal, plod along towards an unrealistically perfect vision of that goal, and then when someone else fulfulls that goal first, suddenly say, ``Ah-hah! That's my goal, therefore, I can put my name on it.'' --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,8971ce4fd62697b1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6fdfa51164e34878 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU TeX 0.80 (beta) Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <78dscu$pg$1@tashkent.berkeley.edu> X-Deja-AN: 436165838 References: <lQXn2.1$S36.166@news12.ispnews.com> <36A89F39.4DA32F4A@urbanophile.com> <742q2.198$NN.9427@ptah.visi.com> <36A8B5CB.F1F2B529@urbanophile.com> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.misc.discuss