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Article #1697Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Tim Smith
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:31
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:31
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In article <C0oDJ1.4u9@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes: >Quoting chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) in article <2B4F312E.E292@tct.com>: >>It's just that spreadsheets aren't as fun to write, and don't generate >>as much peer approval, as clever programming tools. > >Well, the people who write GNU things are programmers, and they tend to >write them because they feel the need for them. They're more likely to >feel the need for programming tools than spreadsheets... Uh, nearly everyone I've heard of who wrote a spreadsheet was a programmer! --Tim Smith
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