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Article #1464Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 22:10
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 22:10
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In article <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes: >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. Well said! How about it, Michael... would you prefer the FSF called itself the... ...Free-to-users-but-not-free-to-would-be-profiteering-redistributers Software Foundation? -- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu Northampton, MA, USA
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF Message-ID: <C0AtLw.Bow@mtholyoke.edu> Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Mount Holyoke College References: <9212300616.AA25845@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:10:44 GMT Lines: 20