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Article #1648Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Tim Smith
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:11
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:11
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jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: >They are wrong. They are suffering from the Zeleny delusion. They >would be correct only if they found out that subroutine S, written by >ANOTHER offer and GPLed by him/her, was in the program. Actually, if these two subroutine S implementations are independent creations, they still would not be correct. Of course, proving that two identical pieces of source code (if not trivial, and not written by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie) were really two independent works would be hard... --Tim Smith
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