From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 10:54:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E3A37B7CE for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14903; Sat, 13 May 2000 13:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA16056; Sat, 13 May 2000 13:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA16052; Sat, 13 May 2000 13:53:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:53:18 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message