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Re: Time to Forget About Hurd??

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From: Roland Dreier
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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