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## Uh....a Little Help Here?

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I, Tom Lord, the author of `arch` , have been unemployed for a very long time now, and my sole proprietorship revenues, while non-0, have left me far below the poverty line.

"Boo-hoo", I know. Things are tough all over.

In the absence of any alternative, I funded much of the work to develop `arch` by cashing in all my retirement savings, selling the little bit of stock I owned, selling many possessions (I really miss my guitars and CDs), and racking up some enormous credit card debts (some soon to be written off as bad debt!). Why did I do those seemingly crazy things? Partly out of necessity -- but partly also because I BELIEVE IN `arch` THAT MUCH AND YOU SHOULD TOO.

So here's the deal:

1) I'm grateful to receive "gifts" (which I treat as business income) sent to my PayPal account `lord@emf.net` .

2) I'm very interested in any jobs that might be available in the S.F. Bay Area (especially Alameda, S.F., or work-at-home) for a really excellent C/Scheme/sh/awk/unix programmer. No, I've never hacked linux device drivers, SQL, PHP, TCP/IP stacks, Java Beans, J2EE, or Visual Studio. Yes I do prefer opportunities to work on free software.

3) "Practical Research" is what I do best. I have a lot of projects in the fire, so to speak -- `arch` is just one. If you have any good ideas about how to fund them, send me email.

4) `arch` can (with a little more development) save the industry millions in licensing fees for proprietary revision control systems. IBM, Red Hat, HP/C, United Linux members, Apple, potential business partners with capital: I'm talking to you! Send me email.

5) In general: I NEED MONEY (desperately) -- so if you can help, please get in touch.

arch Meets hello-world: A Tutorial Introduction to The arch Revision Control System
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