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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 09:31:11 GMT
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- In article <C0oDJ1.4u9@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >Quoting chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) in article <2B4F312E.E292@tct.com>:
- >>It's just that spreadsheets aren't as fun to write, and don't generate
- >>as much peer approval, as clever programming tools.
- >
- >Well, the people who write GNU things are programmers, and they tend to
- >write them because they feel the need for them. They're more likely to
- >feel the need for programming tools than spreadsheets...
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- Uh, nearly everyone I've heard of who wrote a spreadsheet was a programmer!
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- --Tim Smith
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