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Article #62964Re: Time to Forget About Hurd??
From: Roland Dreier
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 06:18
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 06:18
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>>>>> "ken.seefried" == K J Seefried <ken.seefried@6856.404259.bst.bst.bellsouth.sprint.com> writes:
ken.seefried> People are speaking of GNU development in terms of
ken.seefried> resource allocation as though these people are paid
ken.seefried> and have deadlines to meet, presumedly to the people
ken.seefried> complaining about where the resources go.
ken.seefried> I suspect this stems from the fact that since GNU
ken.seefried> has developed some awfully nice software, and then
ken.seefried> gave it away, that some in the user community now
ken.seefried> feel that the GNU developers "owe" them more free
ken.seefried> software, and "owes" it on some sort of fixed
ken.seefried> schedule.
ken.seefried> It seems to me, though I hesitate to present it as
ken.seefried> fact, that I have never seen the names of these
ken.seefried> whiners associated with building a useful bit of
ken.seefried> software.
ken.seefried> Anyone who feels that there is some pressing project
ken.seefried> that GNU should address have a simple option: step
ken.seefried> up to the plate and do it. Otherwise, don't
ken.seefried> complain.
If RMS can tell me not to use TCL, why can't I tell him what to do??
Roland
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Roland "Loverboy" Dreier dreier@math.berkeley.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,2aab9aafd6d3b5e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-29 22:18:40 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!dreier From: dreier@phnom-penh.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Time to Forget About Hurd?? Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:18:40 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <DREIER.95Mar29221841@phnom-penh.berkeley.edu> References: <ARTK.95Mar26112044@cc-color1.Congruent.COM> <DJOHNSON.95Mar28101702@tartarus.ucsd.edu> <3l9n1l$klm@dlsn31.dal.mobil.com> <3lc7f7$gno@atglab10.atglab.bls.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phnom-penh.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: ken.seefried@6856.404259.bst.bst.bellsouth.sprint.com's message of 29 Mar 1995 18:04:23 GMT