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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:15:26 GMT
- References: <9212300616.AA25845@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com>
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- In article <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com>
- tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:
-
- >Mikhail:
-
- MZ:
- >>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.
-
- TOB:
- >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.
-
- That's just why I said that *I* find this practice obnoxious. Surely
- if you have no personal interest in preserving the meaning of freedom,
- my objection may well appear frivolous to you.
-
- TOB:
- >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.
-
- Pray tell, what is "the use of it", and just in what sense is it free?
- The way I see it, the use of GNU places me under a legal obligation to
- the FSF; on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
- ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.
-
- TOB:
- >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.
-
- Consider a career as a copywriter; you have the right approach. On
- second thought, even that profession does not call for a small print
- explanation that the "Care Free" menstrual pads will not *really* live
- up to the insouciantly autarchic implications of their trade name.
-
- > Tom
- >
- >--
- >The Tom spreads its huge, scaly wings and soars into the wild sky...
- >(tob@world.std.com)
-
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
- en mon livre de vie. Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."
-