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Shalom ha-Ashkenaz, 1998/06/18 CE
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**RE: FreeMUMPS and its source code files**
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Shalom!
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Someone set out to purchase all MUMPS vendors. What is good for Terry
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may not be good for the traditional MUMPS community.
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MUMPS is fun. MUMPS is OPEN. MUMPS puts YOU in control of affairs.
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Somebody is monopolising MUMPS, is cache-ing MUMPS.
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So we need a FreeMUMPS, i.e. something even Terry-Bill cannot buy!
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Here are files of a preliminary version of FreeMUMPS.
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I put them in the hands of MUG with the following guidelines:
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1) The aim of the project is to make available FreeMUMPS to
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everybody (even private use for Terry shall be granted :-).
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2) As long as there is no manual (preferably in the English language)
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available to the public and as long as there is an unresolved list
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of known problems, FreeMUMPS is ***NOT*** to be made available to
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the general public. Let lousy products be the privilege of MS-Bill.
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3) MUG may forward FreeMUMPS at this stage to individuals
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or to non-profit organizations who volunteer to contribute to the
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project. When there is a manual (TeX or LaTeX recommended!, HTML is
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not bad either) and when a MUG task force declares
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FreeMUMPS free of known problems then FreeMUMPS is to be made
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available to the general public.
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4) FreeMUMPS is not to be placed under the GNU General Public Licence.
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Anybody who wants to produce a proprietary product with parts of
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FreeMUMPS is free to do so: Either with FreeMUMPS as part of
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application programs or with FreeMUMPS as the basis of a new
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commercial MUMPS implementation. However, who passes FreeMUMPS
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or products based on it, must inform the recipient of the
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FreeMUMPS Copyright, and he has to provide the FreeMUMPS
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source codes without additional charges.
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5) Everybody passing FreeMUMPS or products based on it should encourage
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the recipient to join in a MUMPS Users Group of her choice.
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6) Current FreeMUMPS runs under LINUX and under SCO-UNIX. Minor modifications
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may be needed to make it compile & run under other Unixes. A Windows-98 or
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Windows-NT Version is desirable. char is "signed char".
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under SCO-UNIX you call it with "mumps.sco"
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under LINUX you call it with "mumps.linux"
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use mcc and mutil to compile FreeMUMPS and associated untilities.
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Have much fun, get involved with FreeMUMPS, and do not forget
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to observe Sabbath Kaddish,
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Yours,
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Shalom ha-Ashkenaz |
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