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In article <559@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:

   Regardless of the matter of the text of Alternative News Hierarchies,
   the fact remains that FSF considers that it "owns" the GNU mailing
   lists and is therefore the entire authority as to their content,
   despite the fact that operation of the lists/newsgroups are not paid 
   for by FSF but by a large number of cooperating sites including public
   universities and government sites that are legally prohibited from
   making gifts of public funds/facilities for private political advocacy.

Unfortunately for your cause, the price of FSF software is private
political advocacy.  This price isn't reflected in the bottom line of
the above institutions.  It is an easy price to pay.  Can you come up
with the $$$ so that universities and government sites can afford
"real" software?  Or are you going to write public domain software to
substitute for FSF software?  Or are you going use *your* words to
convince people to spend *their* dollars?  Or are you going to "pass a
law"?
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