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Article #74001Jumping on the GNU bandwagon (was Re: GNU Under Siege)
From: Huw Jonathan Rogers
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 04:44
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,242c5d8c0521d9b7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-11 22:52:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp!huw From: huw@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Huw Jonathan Rogers) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Jumping on the GNU bandwagon (was Re: GNU Under Siege) Message-ID: <9107120444.AA00443@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp> Date: 12 Jul 91 04:44:04 GMT References: <287d06e8.campfire@campfire.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Murder Inc. Lines: 37