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Article #715Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 1990 11:10
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 1990 11:10
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I don't mind if the GAWK manual's authors decided to not cite the AWK book for editorial reasons like ``The AWK book is redundant,'' or even ``We don't want footnotes or references, because they turn users off.'' There is precedent for lack of citations in language reference manuals; see [1], for example. But to refuse to cite a book purely for political reasons smacks of censorship, and in the long run a reputation for censorship will hurt the FSF far more than a few impure references to non-free works. The FSF should be sensitive to the traditions of scholarly publication, because they are natural and powerful allies of the FSF's goals. ----- [1] Adele Goldberg and David Robson, Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley (1983).
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