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- From: schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- In-Reply-To: tob@world.std.com's message of 2 Jan 93 19:47:34 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:10:20 GMT
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- tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:
- 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.
-
- How about the word "Shared", then? I think it communicates the facts
- (if not the politics) better than "Free" does. Too late now, though.
-
- 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.
-
- I can. But in any case, people are now enticed to do battle by what
- have become fighting words, which is a shame.
-