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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 05:29:26 -0400 Organization: SONETECH, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <317F45F6.25FAD525@gramercy.ios.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4la318$ah3@sidhe.memra.com> <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org> <olSKcKG00iWQ85P5MQ@andrew.cmu.edu> <Dq8Jn1.AH0@detached.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-2.ts-4.dc.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.20 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22068 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:784 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3290 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17956 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46754 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3437 In article <olSKcKG00iWQ85P5MQ@andrew.cmu.edu>, Peter W Boettcher <pwb+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > >Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.development.system: 20-Apr-96 Re: > >Historic Opportunity fa.. by Terry Lambert@lambert.or > >> In practice, we reaaly have two groups of people: those who > >> burn their free time playing with computers and those who > >> don't. > >> > >> I'd argue that the people you are talking about belong to > >> the second group -- they aren't willing to cook a bunch of > >> Saturdays on building "Word for X windows". > > > >I disagree. I am a fairly competent programmer, but do not have > >the experience necessary to do anything productive with system > >development. I would, on the other hand, be willing to spend > >some time working on applications. Start by finding about the numerous free Unix mass-market app projects that are going on and find the most realistic/active/complete effort and get into that. Look at all the Word Processor efforts and all the contacts for each of them in the Linux Projects Map: http://www01.ix.de/ix/linux/Projects-Map.html Bryan Seigneur -- __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ _ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /| |/ / /____/_/_//_/\___//_/|_|...priceless.