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

#74005
From: Uncle Miltie
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 13:18
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In article <9107120444.AA00443@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp> huw@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Huw Jonathan Rogers) writes:
   From: huw@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Huw Jonathan Rogers)
   Organization: Murder Inc.

   In article <287d06e8.campfire@campfire.UUCP> david@campfire.UUCP writes:
   >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.

The US propaganda war on its citizens is not the same thing as its attack on
Iraq and Kuwait.  The propaganda generated in connection with the attack is
merely a good example of the ever increasing power of the government to
control the media.  The connection is between two propaganda campaigns, not
between the bloody massacre and the government suppression of programmer
freedom.


	   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

You forgot to append a ":-)" (I hope).
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Subject: Linkage (was Re: Jumping on the GNU bandwagon (was Re: GNU Under Siege))
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