The full text of the proposal is available here:
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing
http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd45436b
Affected groups that might interest you:
comp.soft-sys.app-builder.appware Novell's visual development environment.
comp.soft-sys.app-builder.dynasty Dynasty Development.
comp.soft-sys.khoros The Khoros X11 visualization system.
comp.soft-sys.middleware.opendoc OpenDoc and its related technologies.
comp.soft-sys.shazam The SHAZAM econometrics computer program.
comp.soft-sys.stat.systat The statistical program package SYSTAT.
If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group
news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message,
so simply replying to this post should do the right thing.
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