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In article <0d3O1ZG00j5u4547EG@andrew.cmu.edu> jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:
>                                                    If AT&T *were* to
>actually sue someone, I'd imagine that the FSF would organize a
>boycott of AT&T - at least, I'd be urging them to. 

   People have been throwing the three-letter-acronyms "FSF" and "LPF"
around as if they were one in the same.  They are not.  

   The Free Software Foundation is an organization putting together a body
of free software on a unix-like platform.  The League for Programming
Freedom is a grass-roots organization attempting to raise awareness about
interface copyrights and software patents, with the hopes that people will
write or lobby congress, boycott offensive companies, etc.  Not only do the
two organizations have very different goals, but they are distinct entities
with their own treasury, board of directors, staff, etc.  

   The fact that the two organizations were started by the same person does
not imply any further association.  Please don't make the issues more
muddled than they already are by confusing the FSF and LPF.  The LPF loses
support sometimes because people were given misinformation about the two
organizations.

   Thanks. 

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Noah Friedman
friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu
(I am not speaking officially for either the FSF or the LPF)