Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:09:20 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Encouraging the author to keep g77 upto date for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199509140009.AAA06438@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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On the g77 mailing list, this was one of the messages from the author. Jordan,
do you think we could send him a 2.0.5 CD?
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:27:50 -0400
From: Craig Burley <burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Goodwill and Happiness All Around...
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I just received a package in the mail today. It contains one box
named "S.u.S.E. Linux" that contains a largish manual of the same title
(plus "Unix fur PCs"), a 3CD set of the same title, all dated
April 1995, and a separately packaged 4CD set called "LINUX aktuell!"
which is dated July 1995.
Apparently this is the result of my responding positively to email
asking if I'd be willing to receive a FREE copy of these materials.
This email was sent in late June, and I had forgotten all about it...
until today.
The email was sent to me, as I recall, because they found that I was
one of the authors of software they were including in the package --
specifically, GNU Fortran -- and they wanted to reward the people
who put significant time and effort into the software they were
repackaging into this format.
I certainly appreciate the people at email address suse@suse.de for
such a generous offer, as this is exactly the sort of thing that
can not only maintain current levels of enthusiasm for writing
freely redistributable software source code, but greatly increase
them!
It is likely that having this material available to me will greatly
speed up the inevitable process I must go through of upgrading
my 20-month-old patchwork Linux software installation, which will
ultimately result in my having a faster file system (ext2 vs. ext)
on my primary system partition, thus making me more productive.
Who knows, I might even install X and get it up and running....
Now, of course, I have two new action items on my agenda:
1. Buy a CD-ROM drive.
2. Ask my wife to brush up on her German language skills so she can
translate the manual for me.
:-)
tq vm, (burley)
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