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Re: LPF boycott of Apple (comments & quotes from RMS interview)

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From: Richard L. Goerwitz
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1991 22:20
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>
>>One thing that concerns me greatly is that the LPF copyleft agreements
>>actually restrict me in ways that annoy me a great deal.
>
>Jesus.  Learn the difference between the FSF and LPF, ok?  The LPF doesn't
>have a copyleft license, the LPF doesn't write code, and the LPF doesn't
>want code to be distributed only in source-code only (neither does the FSF,
>for that matter).

Leave Jesus out of this.  (Senseless cursing on the net is almost as
asinine as pointing out spelling mistakes.)

The message you should learn from this is that the LPF *is* often con-
fused with the FSF, mainly due to a few high-profile members.  It's a
very understandable mistake for someone to make.  Regardless of whe-
ther you are above such mistakes or not, others can and will make them.

Incidentally, where did anyone say that the LPF wanted source-only dis-
tributions?

-- 

   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer
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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Subject: Re: LPF boycott of Apple (comments & quotes from RMS interview)
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