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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.emanon.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tcom.co.uk!morse.ukonline.co.uk!bath.ac.uk!niss!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ukc!crane.ukc.ac.uk!R.L.Hesketh 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 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 16 Sender: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk Message-ID: <940@crane.ukc.ac.uk> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <3176D081.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> <4la318$ah3@sidhe.memra.com> <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org> Reply-To: R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) NNTP-Posting-Host: crane.ukc.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22665 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:886 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3587 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3445 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18434 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47534 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