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- From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Organization: Independent Network (UK)
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:35:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0Lt7D.Jy2@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk>
- References: <BASHFORD.93Jan7194947@zippy.scripps.edu> <C0K0qL.HH8@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> <1immn8INNgmm@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1immn8INNgmm@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- >
- >In article <C0K0qL.HH8@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk
- >(Joe Sharkey) writes:
- >>
- >> What would it give "users" that shareware/freeware wouldn't?
- >Source, and the ability to get support from a third party.
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- Sorry? What would it give "users"...?
-
- >> Except for "problems" of course...
- >Would you care to elaborate? What "problems"?
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- I could say "get a life" - but you seem to post from there :-)
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- "We" are all knowledgable software people who would have no problem
- installing "GNU Wp", "GNU Sheet", "GNU Draw" etc. *From source*. Any
- problems, well we do have source...
-
- Further, I can walk into *any* bookshop and buy books about WP/123/Corel
- et al. I can contact *any* "training/educational" firm for help.
-
- GNU? *Now*, I cannot.
-
- - Cygnus: too expensive for day-to-day Oleo support (just a guess...)
- - Russ Nelson: standardised on *one* a while ago.
- - etc etc
-
- >> And they'd need a compiler...
- >That doesn't follow. The GPL doesn't prevent someone from distributing
- >binaries. Indeed, I have an entire system of GPL'd programs, none of
- >which I compiled myself; it's called Linux SLS.
-
- And you have some parts of statically linked, some with the "jump-table"
- shared libraries... (2 copies of X?)
-
- Linux looks to be heading for a major hiatus when 1.0 comes out :-(
-
- Again: What use is Linux to someone who just wants to run spreadsheets
- or Word Processing?
-
- I say: "None - there's no support."
-
- > mycroft@ai.mit.edu
-
- joe.
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