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Article #1148Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects
From: Bas de Bakker
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:52
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:52
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>>>>> On 6 Oct 92 08:11:14 GMT, tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) >>>>> said: [stuff deleted] ts> It's the late '70s. While most of us who hack on "real" computers ts> dismiss the new microcomputers as amusing toys, RMS realizes that he can ts> do a lot of good with a lot of money, and realizes that microcomputer ts> software is going to be big. Thus is born GNU-Basic for the 8080. Soon ts> to follow is GNU-DOS for IBM. These are sold as commercial, supported, ts> binary-only software. ts> Ten years later, RMS is worth about $5,000,000,000, and GNUSoft ts> dominates the industry. IMHO, this would not work. One of the reasons that GNU (and some other free) software is so good is that all users can get the source code and can therefore submit patches, extensions and the like. Bas de Bakker.
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!donau!donau.et.tudelft.nl!bas From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects In-Reply-To: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu's message of 6 Oct 92 08: 11:14 GMT Message-ID: <BAS.92Oct6105243@carlo.phys.uva.nl> Sender: news@donau.et.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: carlo.phys.uva.nl Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands References: <1992Oct4.124453.10061@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BRUCE.92Oct5110747@suprenum.uxb.liv.ac.uk> <FRIEDMAN.92Oct5223325@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Oct6.081114.28892@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:52:43 GMT Lines: 20