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bibliographies are for books

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From: Lawrence Butcher
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 09:29
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We live in interesting times.

My opinion on the practice of not referencing books in GNU documentation:

Copyrights were designed to give the creator of a literary or artistic work
the ability to benefit from the creative effort FOR A LIMITED TIME.  At the
end of the limited time, the creative work belongs to the public.  The claim
that books represent hoarded information is simply not correct.  Stallman is
motivated by impatience, not principle.  I think that he should name his
references.  GNU should have separate bibliographies for free and non-free
information.

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From: butcher@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Lawrence Butcher)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: bibliographies are for books
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Date: 1 Aug 90 09:29:12 GMT
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Posted: Wed Aug  1 10:29:12 1990