[Dotgnu-sc] Re: .Net replacement

[Norbert Bollow]

Hello Dana,
  and great to hear from you!  While I have initially been extremely
active in DotGNU, I have in recent months been forced (by a personal
shortage of money :-) to focus almost exclusively on my own business.
I'm planning to become much more active again soon, but for now I
believe it'd be best for you to speak with these three members of the
DotGNU Steering Committee:

Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden>
David Sugar <address@hidden>
Bradley M. Kuhn <address@hidden>

Rhys is currently the strongest technological leader, and by far the
most active code writer - many people find it hard to believe how a
single person can write so much quality code so fast.  David
(chairman of our Steering Committee) and Bradley (Vice President of
the Free Software Foundation) are good people to speak with on general
matters of why we absolutely must have a need a Free Software
replacement for .Net and the general strategy of DotGNU and the GNU
project as a whole.

By the way, please make sure that you refer to our work as "Free
Software", not "open-source".  ("open-source" is a term used by those
who disagree with the basic principles of the GNU project, to which
we are committed.)

Greetings, Norbert.

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> Hello. My name is Dana Cline - I'm a Senior Contributing Editor at
> Software Development Magazine (www.sdmagazine.com). I am starting an
> article on open-source replacements for Microsoft's .NET and was
> referred to your website at www.dotgnu.org.
> 
> While I plan on perusing all of the available information on your
> web site, I also wanted to open a dialog with whoever is the
> overseer or "driving force" behind this project. If it is not you,
> can you point me to the correct person?
> 
> I'll attempt to glean what I can from the web site and the summary
> email postings, but I'm sure I'll have additional questions fairly
> soon in September. In the meantime, if you have any "prepared PR
> statements" that are not on the web site, please send me a copy. I
> can be reached via the following methods. Thanks!
> 
> Dana Cline
> 
> day job - address@hidden 303-538-6105
> home    - address@hidden 303-254-5525
>