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Re: FSF featured in "The Guardian"

#639
From: Ron Guilmette
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 05:25
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In article <BOB.89Nov20142414@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <ZMACX07.89Nov16192342@tsun2.doc.ic.ac.uk> zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) writes:
>   Reluctantly enticed into the lab's harsh illumination, Stallman
>   looks like a pale-skinned, soft-bodied dweller of cave-pools,
>   unadapted to the worlds glare and noise.
>
>Hardly the Emacs manual's cover picture of a noble knight riding to
>the rescue on a charging GNU, eh? :-)

Well, perhaps he's really a nobel pale-skinned, soft-bodied, cave-pool
dwelling knight, unadapted to the worlds of glare and noise but well
accustomed to riding to the rescue on a charging GNU!

I wouldn't know.  I've never met the man.

// rfg
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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
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Subject: Re: FSF featured in "The Guardian"
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Date: 21 Nov 89 05:25:36 GMT
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