Re: the language of freedom & Get something together

From: [at]} <Stephen>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:11:13 -0600

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Going opensource with Blackbox would take care of the maintenance issues
for Oberon while they concentrated on software writing. An open source
approach would bring in the college crowd, where languages need to be so
that college grads then go on to use it in industry.

Otherwise, c'mon and join the mac folks with component C and Cocoa. The
unix based OS X is great.

Steve Holland


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