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In article <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> 
tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:

>Mikhail:

MZ:
>>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.

TOB:
>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.

That's just why I said that *I* find this practice obnoxious.  Surely
if you have no personal interest in preserving the meaning of freedom,
my objection may well appear frivolous to you.

TOB:
>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.

Pray tell, what is "the use of it", and just in what sense is it free?
The way I see it, the use of GNU places me under a legal obligation to
the FSF; on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.

TOB:
>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.

Consider a career as a copywriter; you have the right approach.  On
second thought, even that profession does not call for a small print
explanation that the "Care Free" menstrual pads will not *really* live
up to the insouciantly autarchic implications of their trade name.

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


cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
en mon livre de vie.  Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."