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Article #2020Re: Ain't misinterpretation fun?
From: Greg Lindahl
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1989 08:36
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1989 08:36
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In article <1962@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: >In article <1989Dec22.052935.5136@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >| Well, if I may summarize, this 'discussion' has had lots of subparts. >| >| 1. RMS is out to make it illegal to sell software, therefore we must >| oppose him at every turn or the world will end. > > See above. > > Now I don't believe in either the policy or the methods, nor am I a >personal friend of his. [...] I would, >however, suggest that you understand his position to avoid wasting >effort fighting strawmen. Excuse me? Point 1 was a hypothetical statement intended to summarize arguments made earlier, and the lines right below it in my posting indicated I thought it was a strawman argument also. Perhaps I should suggest you bother to read the posts you follow-up on before you waste net.bandwidth on obvious errors. Just goes to show that this 'discussion' has degenerated into more heat than light... once again. ------ Greg Lindahl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: Ain't misinterpretation fun? Message-ID: <1989Dec30.083650.9858@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 30 Dec 89 08:36:50 GMT References: <8322@stiatl.UUCP> <1989Dec22.052935.5136@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1962@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 26 Ireallyam: gl8f