🚀 go-pugleaf

skubi@prl.dec.com (Marcin Skubiszewski) writes:
>GNUsenet is, unlike the Highly Anarchic Usenet, a proprietary news system and
>its proprietors don't want you to discuss proprietary software. Remember:

Proprietary news system in what sense?  I wasn't aware that it was
anything other than just another news group -- are the transport costs
for the articles paid for in some other way, or we are we just talking
about a different set of conventions? (i.e., not much discussion of
bondage in comp.arch, not much discussion of computer architecture in
alt.sex.bondage).

Note, too, that any comparison of GNU software with proprietary
software (something I can imagine on this list) is hardly useful if
the fans of the proprietary software aren't allowed to say good things
about the proprietary software.  I can't believe that the proponents
of GNU software are that insular (but if they are, all the better for
people selling proprietary software).

David Chase
Sun