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From: danielsi@io.com (Daniel A. Supernaw-Issen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.api.misc,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.windows.x.i386unix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Freeware community needs 3d library NOW
Date: 24 Jun 1996 07:36:52 -0500
Organization: Illuminati Online
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In article <4qlkf5$77a@jik.israel.net>,
Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com> wrote:
>I can't possibly be the only one who is sick and tired of hearing Mr.
>Van Every's proselytizing about 3D code for Linux.
>

[much deleted]

I'd like to state emphatically that not everyone agrees with Mr
Kamens.  I sure don't.  I wish that I had the time to work on this
project.  I agree with the perception of threat relating to
Microsofts entry into the 3d market.  

This is a mild flame:

Please do not activly seek to alienate developers of linux.  I don't
care if you think his/her ideas are the rat's ass or not - many of
these people are responsible for a large amount of what you are
obviously taking for granted.  Those of us who have been around in the
Linux community for a while remember the Ross Biro mess.  Linux is a
truely good thing and actively chasing away those who seek to or have
already contributed to the community is a self-defeating,
shortsighted, and at the least impolite thing to do.

Daniel Supernaw-Issen (happily using Linux since V 0.96A)
danielsi@io.com


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Daniel Supernaw-Issen 
danielsi@io.com