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Article #1605Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Bengt Larsson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:13
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:13
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In article <lkodpvINNs9h@cash.cs.utexas.edu> woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes: > > 2) It's [FSF] just a name. Who's next GM, they don't make "General" > motors, just ones that work in their cars. IBM, they don't > just make "Business Machines" they make PC's and also sell > software. In fact they could charge money to get/use/modify > their code, and still keep their name... Yes, and "General Motors" is a pretty meaningless name... But when you ask something about a GM car, you're not told that it is so "general"! About the FSF you will hear time and time again that the software is FREE! Big difference. >Announcer: Congrats Bob, we're going to give you $10 million > for FREE! See? :-) Use the acronym, FSF, to avoid problems, and call it "FSF software". Or even better and more appropriate, call it "GPL software". That would make things equivalent and silence the critics, even Mathew I believe. Hell, "G" even means "general". Bengt. -- Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.usage.english Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!news.lth.se!bengtl From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson) Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF Message-ID: <1993Jan7.191356.1243@lth.se> Sender: news@lth.se Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden References: <KEVIN.93Jan5162507@calamityjane.edscom.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan7.004313.19059@husc3.harvard.edu> <lkodpvINNs9h@cash.cs.utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:13:56 GMT Lines: 30