Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works

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From: Steve Bleazard
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 1990 09:20

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In article <1990Jul3.182656.25417@midway.uchicago.edu> matt@group-w.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>Paul Eggert:
>) But to refuse to cite a book purely for political reasons smacks of censorship,
>
>This is nothing but knee-jerk bullshit, Paul, and you should be ashamed
>of such sloppy logic-free thinking.

I think this reaction is also a little hasty

>Censorship
>consists of preventing certain things from being said by others.

Isn't deleting part of a manual written by someone else 'preventing things
being said by other' ?  If you concider the FSF to be a single entity, with
a single voice, then it is not censorship.  If, however, you beleive the FSF
is a loose group of people with some commonality in their ideas then the
question is not so easily resolved.

Steve
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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
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Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
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