Re: LPF boycott of Apple

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From: Jon Allen Boone
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 16:17

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friedman@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
> In article <0d3O1ZG00j5u4547EG@andrew.cmu.edu> jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Alle\
> n 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.  

  Thanks for pointing out my error Noah.  As both a member of the LPF
and a contributor to the FSF, I sometimes associate them together too
strongly in my mind (and, consequently, in my replies to people). 

                    Jon "Iain" Boone
                  jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu

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From: jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone)
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Subject: Re: LPF boycott of Apple
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