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From: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 11:05:04 GMT
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In article <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>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 assume you know about the "Hungry Programmers"
(http://www.hungry.com/) and their clone of Motif 1.2?  One of their
current projects is "XWord", a free word processor for X which requires
the Motif clone 8-)  It looks like they need volunteers as it appears
most of their effort is in the Motif clone LessTiff.

I am hoping to burn some holiday on porting applications to FreeBSD,
first on my list are my own X applications 8-)

Richard