🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <192@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill <dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil> writes:
>So if you don't like the political baggage that comes with GNU
>software, don't use it!  You're certainly entitled to disagree with
>rms', or anyone else's, opinions.

The subject of this thread is "Why I do not support GNU".

Seems we have come full circle here...

>> (Any sci.philosophy.people around?  I find this a frightening idea.
>> Because not only did Gandhi break the law for his beliefs, so did his
>> murderer.  How am I to know which laws to obey?
>I don't know diddly about Finnish political history, but in the U.S.A.
>we're raised on the concepts of Freedom and civil disobedience.
>Rather than finding them frightening, we find the thought of not
>having them frightening.  ...

"We"?  What "we"?

You, maybe.  All Americans do not agree with civil disobedience.
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