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Jumping on the GNU bandwagon (was Re: GNU Under Siege)

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From: Huw Jonathan Rogers
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 04:44
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In article <287d06e8.campfire@campfire.UUCP> david@campfire.UUCP writes:
>Treaties negotiated by the current administration and other software
>laws have been consistently favorable to large interests, and hostile
>to users and small developers.  I personally receive very little
>positive feedback for my participation in free software development.
>I do not perceive that the government is favorable to our efforts,
>regardless of the moral quality of our actions.
>
>To further demonstrate their hostility to our principles, consider
>the manipulation of the media during the recent massacre.  The media
>was only given information that suited the government.  The military
>even boasted of purposeful misinformation regarding amphibious
>activities.

	Trying to make some sort of connection between the Gulf War
and FSF/GNU is reprehensible in the extreme and quite frankly unutterable
bullshit. One is a political/military issue of foreign policy, the other
is a domestic economic/political issue of copyright. They are related by
only the most absurdly tenuous of connections.

	I personally object to your remarks in any case because
they are nothing less than treasonous  - a deliberate defamation
of the honorable actions of the allied military in the Gulf War.

	Kindly desist from abusing a just cause (FSF/GNU) to make
unwarranted and politically subversive statements.

	-Huw
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Subject: Jumping on the GNU bandwagon (was Re: GNU Under Siege)
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