The THC H/P/V/Crypto Archives: 2600FAQ.012 (665 lines) Courtesy of THC BBS - +1 250 361 4549    www.vvv.com/~tommy/hp.htm ================================================================== other programs on the computer, and a large number of ancillary programs for handling files, etc.  The Free Software Foundation is developing an advanced kernel called the Hurd. A complete system has tools for programmers, such as compilers and debuggers.  It also has editors, sketchpads, calendars, calculators, spreadsheets, data_base_s, electronic mail readers, and Internet navigators.  The FSF already distributes most of the programs used in an operating system, all the tools regularly used by programmers, and much more. The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The League for Programming Freedom is an organization of people who oppose the attempt to monopolize common user interfaces through look and feel copyright lawsuits.  Some of us are programmers, who worry that such monopolies will obstruct our work.  Some of us are users, who want new computer systems to be compatible with the interfaces we know.  Some are founders of hardware or software companies, such as Richard P. Gabriel. Some of us are professors or researchers, including John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Robert S. Boyer and Patrick Winston. Look and feel lawsuits aim to create a new class of government- enforced monopolies broader in scope than ever before.  Such a system of user-interface copyright would impose gratuitous incompatibility, reduce competition, and stifle innovation. We in the League hope to prevent these problems by preventing user-interface copyright.  The League is NOT opposed to copyright law as it was understood until 1986