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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Does this model work ?
Date: 1999/05/16
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On Sun, 16 May 1999 12:16:01 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:

>
>Yes, of course this is a practical idea, it is the cornerstone
>of the free software movement, and the GNU project, and has
>been used for all sorts of software.

Don't you think that something practical and useful could be done
inside the GNU project?

I mean useful for the end user. You have one point of distribution and
don't care about the hardware or the OS. However, your application is
still optimized for your platform.