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epstein@sunc2.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) writes:

> Isn't the main point of GNU software to make development tools for
> software developers?

No--that's just what they are starting with, so they can "bootstrap"
GNU.  To quote from the GNU Manifesto:

"After this we will add a portable Common Lisp, an Empire game, a
 spreadsheet, and hundreds of other things, plus on-line documentation.
 We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful that normally comes
 with a Unix system, and more."

"I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so
 that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free."

> It seems less aimed at end-users, who won't
> be developing or modifying their own software (I don't mean that this
> is unfair to end-users, just that they don't have the same needs as
> developers).

My impression so far is that, if anything, the GNU approach is to remove
the distinction as much as possible, since anyone can modify anything.

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