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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 21:24:35 GMT
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In article <PC123.93May5000713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
> I think this is a shame.  To my mind there is no gain in producing a
> free operating system for other people to make money out of.

Please, let's not have this fight all over again? 

Different people have different priorities, and different goals. Accept
it, instead of flaming folks whose goals differ from yours.

> Perhaps I should start assembling a kit of GNU software that you can
> add to your 386BSD implementation...

Please do. That would be a valuable tool, plus let us accelerate the unGNUing
of the base platform.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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