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In article <1990Dec18.064308.18526@spool.cs.wisc.edu> bothner@sevenlayer.cs.wisc.edu (Per Bothner) writes:
   >Some of this [money raised from various sources] is available to people like
   >Peter in order to (partially) compensate them for their efforts.

   I don't believe FSF doles out money to other than employees
   (and, btw, Stallman is technically a volunteer).
   And Peter Deutsch is not employed by FSF, but has worked on
   Ghostscript on his own time, without compensation (except a few
   "thanks you"s). Thus misinformed carping is quite out of place.

Yes, in fact, during development of verision 1.3, Peter cut back on
the number of hours per week he was working in order to devote more
time to ghostscript.  This hasn't been mentioned previously.

In Peter's closing comments to beta testers last Friday:
    As you know, I plan to make the final fileset on Friday, December 28.
    I will be out of town Dec. 16 through 23, but I am prepared to work
    very hard in the following week to get the fileset together.

    Thanks again for the time and effort you've put into helping improve
    Ghostscript.  It has made, and is continuing to make, a tremendous
    difference in the quality of the result.

All the beta testers know that Peter is on holiday from Dec 16 to the
23rd, and can't defended himself untill then.  Why don't we wait till
the 23rd to discuss this....  Gad, he deserves more than this.  Rich