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Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?

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From: Russell McOrmond
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:20
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In a previous article, johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) says:

>In article <F7LVVB14w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>[...]
>>I count at least three definitions of the word "free" in that single
>>paragraph.  Either you're trying to pull a fast one or you're genuinely
>>confused -- which?
>
>Please get a clue, 'free' means different things in different contexts.

  We can wish for many things, but Mathew getting a 'clue' is not likley
to ever happen.  I read his messages in amusement, and find that he is
a good example of the 'mentality' (Mental case?) that encourage the
existance of destructive companies like Apple in the first place.

>Except that GNU/FSF's 'universe' is *much* larger and they are very up
>front and honest about their goals/positions.  Apple has a very long and

  I myself use the GNU public licence in the software that I write, and
I make use of many GNU based utilities (Emacs, diff,RCS, etc - Soon GCC)
and I don't even run Unix at this point at all.  Funny, for a closed
universe it does seem to encompase pretty much everything.


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Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
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