[Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

[William Scott]

Dear Max:

Congratulations to you and to all of the fink developers. As someone who has greatly benefitted from fink but has yet to find a way to contribute anything, I wanted to take a minute to mention that fink has been the single most important thing that makes Mac OS X much more useful to me than OS 9 and before. Fink quite literally has made it possible for me to use my Apple computer as a real unix computer rather than as a glorified typewriter.

I read on the SourceForge page that "Apple has at one point supported us by giving Christoph a beta release of Mac OS X 10.1."

Would it be worth having us write to Apple and tell them how important fink has been, and how nice it would have been to have supplied a beta release, for example, of 10.2, and encourage Apple to do everything they can to support fink in the future?

I actually had an apple rep track me down last week to ask about why I was grumbling about 10.2. So on some level they must be interested...

Again, thanks for doing this. I think it is safe to say that fink is greatly appreciated by all of us.



William G. Scott

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
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