Re: The future of GNU and the FSF

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From: Michael De La Rue
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:22

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Yeah, but the "Software Freedom Foundation" would live on, without all
of the confusion about the difference between free and free.. There's
no way to stop it taking over the FSF code base either..  If it was
based in a country with a sane (low cost/high protection against
malicious suits) legal system then it might even improve the future of
free software.

In article <3k1c0g$i64@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
zachary brown <zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
>Realistically speaking, if a major software company filed a false suit for
>copyright infringement, wouldn't that be enough to break the FSF and GNU, if
>that's what the company wanted to do?
>
>Disclaimer: I live off GNU and don't want them destroyed.

Which would make it worth your (and many others) while contributing to
a defence if it looked winnable.

>Zack

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