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- From: hlg@po.CWRU.Edu (Heather L. Garvey)
- Newsgroups: cle.general,oh.general,ba.general,alt.bbs.internet
- Subject: Re: Loose Change Anyone?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:33:40 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: hlg@po.CWRU.Edu (Heather L. Garvey)
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- In a previous article, gavroche@nin.wariat.org (jamie rishaw) says:
-
- >"here, tommy. help me make a central bbs for the students of case, and
- >what the hell, let's allow outsiders in, too.. you know.. good PR."
- >
- >(a couple years later after everything is running smoothly)..
- >
- >"wow.. looks like freenet is doing pretty good.. thanks, tommy! oh,
- >and you and your little organization can pack up and leave, now.. we
- >don't need your help anymore.."
- >
- >* sigh *
-
- Shyah! Right! Like Grundner wrote ANY of FreePort! All CWRU got
- from the original Freenet is the NAME and REPUTATION. From what old users
- of the original system tell me, it was nothing more than some piddly
- little BBS, just like those run by 8th-graders all over the nation. In
- fact, the software was *worse* than most and extremely painful and
- frustrating to use. Tom didn't *make* ANY of CFN.
- Considering the fact that Grundner did diddly-squat for CFN
- after CWRU took care of it, (Remember, Freenet was DEAD when CWRU took
- it on. Without CWRU, it would not exist now.) he's real lucky they kept
- him on and gave him a salary.
- As someone already said, *anyone* can sit around and say "Gee,
- wouldn't community computing be a nifty idea?" Tom couldn't implement
- this idea; why should he get all the credit for an idea thousands of
- computer users have had, too?
-
-
- --
- Heather Garvey | "This, this is ice. This is what happens when water
- hlg@po.cwru.edu | gets too cold."
- garvey@SCL.cwru.edu | "This, this is Kent. This is what happens when people
- Biochemist-in-Training| get too sexually frustrated." -- Chris Knight
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