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- From: tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:47:34 GMT
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- Mikhail:
-
- > What I find obnoxious is the linguistic games in which you feel compelled
- > to indulge, whilst justifying your claim to the high moral ground of the
- > humanity's benefactors.
-
- Pardon my jumping in, but it does not seem particularly obnoxious or
- dishonest to me to have a short english word in front of ..Software
- Foundation instead prepending the name with a long paragraph explaining a
- host of details.
-
- The use of it is free, and that's what most people value, so I think "free"
- captures the spirit of this as well as any short common word can be expected
- to.
-
- In any case, the CopyLeft license can be easily obtained and read (As I'm
- sure you have), so I can't believe anyone is truly misled.
-
- Tom
-
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