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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 13:53:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005131351470.15857-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost>

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On Sat, 13 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote:

> I am probably not the best person to do all of the coding, as I am primarily 
> an assembly language and embedded systems hacker. However, I would be willing
> to coordinate the effort. Who out there is interested in a project whose
> purpose is to "liberate" GNU code from its pernicious license, via either
> reimplementation or clean room reverse engineering?

YO!

My hellish semester is finally over here in just another week and a half
and I was planning on beating down grep again.  Also, a friend of mine is
working on diff (he wanted to learn something so I thought I'd suggest a
project that would be useful to the Real World).  :)

Jamie



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