From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 12: 5: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8B637BBD3 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 12:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.252.136.158]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3770 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:03:31 -0400 Message-ID: <391DA87A.2AB9BB26@asme.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:09:46 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FWIW, On the slasdot interview with the people from SCO, it was hinted that the might release other tools like lex. cheers, Pedro. James Howard wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message