Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Tom O Breton
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 19:47

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Mikhail:

> What I find obnoxious is the linguistic games in which you feel compelled
> to indulge, whilst justifying your claim to the high moral ground of the
> humanity's benefactors.

Pardon my jumping in, but it does not seem particularly obnoxious or
dishonest to me to have a short english word in front of ..Software
Foundation instead prepending the name with a long paragraph explaining a
host of details.

The use of it is free, and that's what most people value, so I think "free"
captures the spirit of this as well as any short common word can be expected
to.

In any case, the CopyLeft license can be easily obtained and read (As I'm
sure you have), so I can't believe anyone is truly misled.

        Tom

-- 
The Tom spreads its huge, scaly wings and soars into the wild sky...      
(tob@world.std.com)

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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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