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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (22402)	1/12/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

Hey, thanks dude. I appreciate it. ----------------------------------- Y'know, looking at the site, I had a disturbing thought. I notice they also are going open source. How many programmers on the net are actually interested in debugging and playing with all this open source everyone is releasing. Could we overwhelm that small group of programmers with what amounts to a lot of requests for free support and debugging? Can this work for anyone except GNU and Linux??? Will too many folks doing this dilute the GNU and Linux efforts? (To MSFT: That last thing could never happen. Don't try it. ) Will companies reorganize their SW development so that an adequate number of programmers actually get paid for open source efforts? Will the paradigm change that much? We at minimum need somebody to draw us a code map through all this stuff so we can keep the common modules and the copyrighted stuff sorted out. Maybe some semi-permanent institution needs to be fired up. Enquiring minds want to know.