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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.233952.18946@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 04:39:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan2.233952.18946
- References: <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> <C08tEz.2tF@cs.psu.edu>
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- In article <C08tEz.2tF@cs.psu.edu>
- schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
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- >tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:
-
- 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.
-
- SS:
- >How about the word "Shared", then? I think it communicates the facts
- >(if not the politics) better than "Free" does. Too late now, though.
-
- Mea culpa. I wish I had never suggested "Free Software Foundation" as
- an allegedly neutral alternative to Stallman's preferred "Frenetics".
- I agree that "Shared" (perforce) is an apt adjective for the current
- state of affairs; then again, had I not thought that the end result
- would be free, I would not have been likely to get involved in
- promoting it.
-
- In article <9301022105.AA10470@raisin-scone>
- tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
-
- LHT:
- >In retrospect, I wish we had name FSF the:
- > Software Freedom Foundation
- >but it's way to late now.
-
- Well, I wish you had named it something else, too. But surely your
- proposed alternative makes as much of a difference as Peoples' Front
- of Judea -- from Judean Peoples' Front. At issue here is not the word
- order, but your claim to freedom.
-
- >enjoy -len
- >
- >Member, League for Programming Freedom. Ask: lpf@uunet.uu.net
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-