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<h3 align="center">THE GNOME AND LINUX COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRY
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LEADERS JOIN TO CREATE THE GNOME FOUNDATION</h2>
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Developers and Corporations Unite to Advance GNOME as the Leading Open
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Source Desktop Environment
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<br><br>
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LinuxWorld Expo, San Jose, CA -- August 15, 2000 --The GNOME project
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today announced the creation of the GNOME Foundation, which will be
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governed by a board of directors elected by the hundreds of volunteer
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developers who contribute to GNOME. In addition, industry leaders and
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organizations including Compaq, Eazel, Free Software Foundation,
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Gnumatic, Helix Code, Henzai, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Object Management
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Group, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, TurboLinux and VA Linux have announced
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their support for the foundation, with the goal of advancing the
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availability of this easy-to-use, open source, desktop environment.
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<br><br>
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"The GNOME Foundation marks a major step forward for the GNOME project,"
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said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project. "As GNOME continues
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to gain momentum, we needed a forum where the GNOME developers and
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corporate partners can come together to coordinate the continued
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development of GNOME. The support of these industry leaders will help
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us to achieve our dream of building a fully free, easy to use desktop
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environment that will be used by many millions of people."
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<br><br>
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The foundation will help set the technical direction of the GNOME
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project, promote the broad adoption of GNOME on Linux and Unix desktops
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and offer a forum for industry leaders to contribute to GNOME. The
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Bonobo component project, GTK toolkit development, Pango
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internationalization, GNOME Office integration and other projects will
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be embraced under the GNOME organization. The foundation will be
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modeled on the Apache Foundation, with a board of directors elected by
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the hundreds of volunteer GNOME developers.
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<br><br>
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<b>GNOME Advisory Board</b>
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<br><br>
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The GNOME project also announced the creation of an Advisory Board which
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will allow corporations and other organizations to support GNOME.
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Initial members of the Advisory Board include: Compaq, Eazel, Free
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Software Foundation, Gnumatic, Hewlett-Packard, Helix Code, Henzai, IBM,
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Object Management Group, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, TurboLinux and VA
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Linux.
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<br><br>
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<b>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</b>
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<br><br>
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The GNOME project has built a completely free and easy-to-use desktop
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environment, as well as a powerful application framework for software
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developers on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The GNOME
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Foundation will provide organizational, financial and legal support to
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the GNOME project, and help determine its vision and roadmap.
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CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development
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services based on open source principles, is helping to organize the
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GNOME Foundation. GNOME is part of the GNU project, an effort to build
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a completely free Unix-like operating system better known as GNU/Linux
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or Linux. Additional information is available at <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">http://www.gnome.org/</a>.
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<br><br>
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You are invited to participate in the GNOME Foundation. We welcome
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contributions in many forms. Our membership consists of those
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individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to the development of
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GNOME through participation in the development, documentation and
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promotion of GNOME. An Advisory Board provides a vehicle for
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organizations and companies to communicate with the GNOME community and
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support GNOME. Additional information is available at
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<a href="http://www.gnome.org/">http://www.gnome.org/</a>.
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<br><br>
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LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Eazel is a trademark of Eazel,
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Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their
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respective owners.
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<b>Quotes:</b>
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"It's always great to see companies coming together and working to bring
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open source technologies to the next level," said Brian Behlendorf, CTO
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& co-founder, CollabNet. "The creation of the Gnome Foundation will
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help move Linux beyond the operating system to becoming a viable desktop
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application and CollabNet is excited to be participating in this
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process."
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"Compaq is pleased to join the Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation,
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continuing Compaq's long-time support of the Linux community and open
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source," said Glenn Johnson, Director of Compaq's Linux Program Office.
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"Compaq expects the foundation will be a valuable forum for us, other
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vendors, and customers to contribute to the GNOME Project."
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"Eazel is delighted to be a member of the Foundation and to be building
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software on the GNOME platform," said Mike Boich, CEO and co-founder of
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Eazel. "Much like the Apache Project before it, GNOME is benefiting from
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the interest of both developers and commercial entities. The GNOME
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Foundation can only help to accelerate that trend."
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<br><br>
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Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation said: "16 years ago, we
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began developing the GNU operating system, a replacement for the Unix
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operating system that would be entirely Free Software (free as in
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freedom). We aimed to give GNU the full scope of Unix, including
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compilers, editors, email software, even games. But beyond that, we
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hoped someday to give a GNU graphical interface like the Macintosh. Our
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third attempt at that, the one that succeeded, is GNOME, started in 1997
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by Miguel de Icaza. GNOME, like all of GNU, is a project of the Free
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Software Movement, which has been working since 1984 to give software
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users the freedom to redistribute and change software. The rival Open
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Source Movement was founded in 1998 to avoid raising issues of freedom
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and principle as we try to do. Supporters of that movement contribute
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to work on GNOME, but GNOME is not part of that movement. See
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html</a> for more
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explanation."
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"Gnumatic Incorporated sees the Gnome Foundation as a major key to the
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creation of desktop and home user applications for Linux," said Dr.
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Linas Vepstas, CEO of Gnumatic Incorporated. "By providing a stable
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desktop development platform for Linux, applications such as GnuCash,
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the personal finance manager being developed by Gnumatic, will benefit
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from the broad array of standard Gnome technologies."
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"We created Helix Code to deploy a free, modern and friendly desktop
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solution to the world," said Nat Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Helix
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Code. "Helix GNOME has brought a new level of accessibility and
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functionality to the hundreds of thousands of users who have installed
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our product. For GNOME, the next step is applications. Helix Code
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comes to the table with Evolution, a comprehensive communications and
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information management suite. Now, industry and developer support has
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rallied around the GNOME platform and major contributions are coming in
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from all sides. We will soon offer a total desktop solution that will
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reshape the industry. GNOME has arrived."
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"HP is excited to join the GNOME foundation and will take an active role
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in working with the open source community to contribute to the future
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desktop standard for Linux and UNIX systems." said Martin Fink, R&D Lab
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Manager for UNIX Systems Enablement. "HP is migrating the HP-UX desktop
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to GNOME towards a goal of common look and feel between HP-UX and
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Linux."
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"By partnering with industry leaders in the GNOME Foundation, IBM
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continues its strong commitment to open standards and a clear vision of
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Linux as the driving force for the evolution of e-business," said Daniel
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Frye, program director, IBM Linux Technology Center. "IBM believes this
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partnership will help enable innovation and will accelerate development
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of the Linux desktop."
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"One of the challenges the Linux community is facing is how to integrate
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the new applications that are currently being developed with the
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established architectures that already exist in most business
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enterprises. GNOME developers have realized that building it around
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CORBA allows them to use components that integrate with other
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industry-recognized technologies, such as Java and C++. The OMG is well
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aware of the need for vendor-neutral organizations that allow developers
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to agree upon standard interfaces. We look forward to helping the GNOME
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Foundation in their mission, " said Dr. Richard Soley, CEO, Object
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Management Group.
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"About three years ago, Red Hat created the Red Hat Advanced Development
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Labs (RHAD Labs) to support open source software on the desktop and
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became the first commercial company to make a contribution to GNOME
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development," said Bob Young, Chairman and co-founder of Red Hat. "With
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the formation of the GNOME Foundation, GNOME is truly coming of age in
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terms of market momentum. We are excited about the opportunities for
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GNOME and open source, and we look forward to working with the new
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members to the GNOME community, like Eazel, Helix, Sun Microsystems and
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others, as they bring applications and technology to the GNOME desktop
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environment."
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"Sun is thrilled to be joining the GNOME Foundation and we plan to adopt
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GNOME as the future desktop for Solaris," said Marco Boerries, vice
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president and general manager of webtop and application software at Sun
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Microsystems, Inc. "We are committed to contributing significant
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engineering resources to the GNOME project and will work closely with
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the other GNOME members to ensure continued reliability and quality."
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"TurboLinux is please to support the GNOME Foundation," said Rok Sosic,
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TurboLinux Chief Technology Officer. "We have used GNOME as our default
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desktop since 1999, and we've been very pleased with the progress that
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it has made toward becoming a full-featured standard. GNOME is one of
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the best examples of how open source software can succeed. Such wide
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ranging support from the industry is guaranteed to help the project
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achieve it's goals."
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"VA Linux Systems has been proud to make GNOME available on our systems
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for years," said Dr. Larry M. Augustin, president and CEO of VA Linux
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Systems. "GNOME is representative of the kind of creativity and
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engineering that is available from the Open Source development
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community. We have a number of engineers who have worked on GNOME and
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GTK technology for some time, and are pleased to extend our GNOME
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efforts by joining the GNOME foundation."
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Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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