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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: So let's talk about FSF
Message-ID: <8213@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 19 Sep 88 00:51:09 GMT
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In article <756@proxftl.UUCP>, bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:

> Perhaps I wasn't clear, so let me try again: *I* do not want to
> talk about FSF on the net.

Once you've flamed a public service group like the FSF, it's a little
late to pick up your marbles and pout all the way home.

> Not likely.  The diversity of abilities and knowledge needed to
> make our kind of software isn't likely to come together for the
> purpose of creating free software.

Go try out GNU emacs or GNU C.  There are no editors in the PC or
Macintosh market to compare with GNU emacs as programmer's editor.
Some commercial compilers are no doubt better than GNU C, but at the
moment, none of the commercial compilers available for unix on an
80386 are as good, and the AT&T 386 compiler isn't even close.

After using each, have a look at the source.  These aren't minor
spelling checkers or whatever.  I *do* believe that eventually
commercial offerings will top both GNU emacs and GNU C, but *because*
of the GNU programs, not in spite of them.  And in the meantime I'll
have a working alternative to the PCC...
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