From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Mon Apr 16 08:31:22 2007 Subject: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead On 4/10/07, Chris <chris@hal3000.cx> wrote: > I would like to announce Jugtail, some of you have no doubt noticed it on: > http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Gopher/ :) Don't forget to add your sites if they're not already listed, and also send me a copy via e-mail. Since the big crash, it's better to double check such things. > To my suprise Mr Stallman ask for Jonzys email address and just like that > emailed him (I was delighted to be cc'd). How neat, for here was two people > I really do consider hero's of mine discussing things like emacs and gcc and > jughead and all :) This man is definitely crazy. When I had switched to Ubuntu I sent him a mail telling something like "thanks to what you did I can use Linux today. One more switcher. We need crazy guys like you, you must have been pretty alone when you started GNU but things changed a lot since. Keep up the good work." All this with the result of vrms. Two days later, guess what, he replied!. He explained that even I was close, I wasn't free yet (some proprietary packages in Ubuntu). He also explained why it was more fair to use GNU/Linux instead of Linux (I always write GNU/Linux since). All this just for a user he never heard about before, and all this in French!!! :) Well, right now I'm under Windows Millennium again (a printer driver issue, it killed synaptic and I'm a little bit lazy to reinstall & repartition the whole thing, but gonna do it one day). > As it was, it took a long time and alot of work, waiting and effort by > people working behind the scenes, all of us unaware (myself included as my > only involvment was to occasionally pester and ask if it was "done yet?"). > And now its preserved and free and now no matter what for ever salvaged from > being lost. I think thats just great! > > Thanks Jonzy! > Thanks Mr Stallman! And thanks Chris! Also thanks for having posted the story of Jugtail. The problem is that it gives ideas for Veronica and Archie as well... > Veronica is next? > Perhaps we could in addition to saving such software as this, move to get it > under the GPL. This way it would be further saved, I am refering to all the > wonderful old software we collect. I love the idea. If you have the mail of the coauthor of Veronica, maybe this could be a beginning. I googled a little bit but couldn't find the mail of phone of Fred Barrie either. Also, what about Archie? Have a look at http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie_eng.html ... Wikipedia tells that there's no archie left, maybe this one is the last of the Mohicans. Unless... Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Jugtail formerly Jughead Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead