Re: An offer to the Gnome folks.. PLEASE Read. Rather important..

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Bowie Poag wrote:

> Lemmie try and make a long story short, here..

[ Story intro deleted ]

> On January 28th I completed my end of the workload, which now consists of
> well over a thousand icons, about 70 audio files, and several hundred
> pages of text, written documentation, and design prototypes.

> This leaves me with about 53MB worth of commercial-grade source material,
> ideas and design innovations that I'd like to put toward a useful purpose
> instead of letting it all go to waste. The design innovations center
> largely on the layout of the GUI, and functionality of the underlying OS. 
> I have neither the money, nor the interest to seek copyright/patent
> protection for any of the ideas.

> Rather than declare it all GPL, I'd like to give first dibs to the Gnome
> effort. You guys seem to be well on your way to achieving your final
> goals, and I'd like to help the effort along by contributing the sum total
> of my development work for InSight. Its all yours, if you want it. At
> least this way, 7 months of my hard work wont go down the drain. If
> anything, it might help further the lead you have over the KDE Team.

> I'd like (personally) to get in touch with whoever is running the show
> here at Gnome to view the material, and discuss whatever interests or
> questions you might have regarding it. I can be reached at the following:

>  EMail: bjp@primenet.com
>  Phone: (520) 320-3853 (If the line is busy, keep trying..)
>  EFNet: ]Arc[, ]3162[, or ]Zzz[
>  Other: via the University of Arizona CS Department, Gould-Simpson Bldg.

	Umm...  Although this gentleman appears to be slightly confused as
to the nature of Gnome, we should still contact him.  Who is doing this?
I haven't seen any comments on the lists...  It would be a shame to let
all of this work just slip awaym IMHO.
						-Ben

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