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Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?

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From: Devon E Bowen
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1991 18:50
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In article <17302@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
|> In article <84445@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon E Bowen) writes:
|> >Every try and explain the GNU philosphy to a drunked red-neck? They start by
|> >giving you a lecture on "this isn't Russia, you know" and then they yell a
|> >bit and then you leave the bar to avoid seeing what happens next. 8-)
|> 
|> I fail to see what has to do with anything, since a drunken redneck is
|> unlikely to help the GNU project through programming or donations of
|> support.  Perhaps you intend to imply that those who doubt the
|> ultimate wonderfulness of GNU are "drunken rednecks", but I'll assume
|> not, because I am in fact one of those people and I'm rarely a drunken
|> redneck.
|> 
|> Anyhow, you wonder why I doubt the ultimate wonderfulness of FS, no
|> doubt.

No, not really (hell, who am I kidding... I couldn't care less). I was
simply posting an amusing anecdote that was taken too seriously during a
spell of paranoia.

Devon
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