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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>    If I can get the funding, I'll work on creating for free release an
> OS much better than Windows, a suite of software apps much better than
> Office, and a seamless communication system much more user friendly than
> the current VOIP systems.  Can I count on you putting up part of the money
> to fund this development?

Of course not. Those are not projects with a realistic hope
of being funded, except by idiots. You will notice that such
projects have not been produced by proprietary companies
either - various attempts have all fallen by the wayside.

If you want to be funded, you will need smaller projects, in an
area where you have proven expertise as demonstrated by previous
successes, for people who have an immediate and urgent need for
the thing you will be making.

Again using GNAT as an example, the same team at NYU had already
produced a validated Ada interpreter using SETL.