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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.104835.29515@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Summary: Rubbish
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- Organization: Gainfully unemployed
- References: <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <1i3ooqINNlt8@ftp.UU.NET> <1993Jan2.122330.18937@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 10:48:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.122330.18937@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- ... [ blah blah ]
- >Semantic drift happens all the time, and it would be foolish for
- >anyone to attempt to countervail its natural forces. However, I see
- >nothing wrong with objecting to a certain form of semantic reform,
- >which is being promulgated on hypocritically self-serving grounds of
- >protecting "my" rights. I happen to have a vested interest in the
- >current meaning of the adjective "free"; if you happen to feel
- >otherwise, that is entirely your prerogative, and your problem.
-
- Pardon me, but isn't "I am not free to make free software not free!" a
- tautology, or something like that?
-
- Give it up, already. Let's call it the "Freely Available Software Foundation"
- and get back to work ...
-
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