Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Al Clark
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 20:38

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In article <C0AtLw.Bow@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>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?
>
    Also, pardon my jumping in, but this discussion is cluttering up
    this news group. Could you please move it to private mail, or
    something.  Kill files are really slow on this machine, and my
    time is of value.

    Thank you for your consideration.

-- 
Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.

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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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