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In article <3lc7f7$gno@atglab10.atglab.bls.com> ken.seefried@6856.404259.bst.bst.bellsouth.sprint.com (K.J. Seefried III) writes:

>   >project be used on some other software development project that they 
>   >consider more useful.
>   >
>
>   And this is a remarkably arrogant attitude.  It is also a far too common
>   attitude.
>
>   People are speaking of GNU development in terms of resource allocation
>   as though these people are paid and have deadlines to meet, presumedly
>   to the people complaining about where the resources go.
>
>   I suspect this stems from the fact that since GNU has developed some
>   awfully nice software, and then gave it away, that some in the user
>   community now feel that the GNU developers "owe" them more free software,
>   and "owes" it on some sort of fixed schedule.

   It has nothing to do with being arrogant, or being owed software.  It has
to do with the nature of the FSF.
  
   The FSF is a non-profit tax-exempt organization that depends on financial
contributions from the public.  In exchange, that public is entitled to
know how those contributions are spent, and to question the resource  
allocation decisions that are made.

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