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  1. Xref: sparky gnu.misc.discuss:4156 talk.philosophy.misc:3121 alt.usage.english:10215 alt.society.anarchy:984
  2. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz
  4. From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
  5. Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
  6. Message-ID: <C0AtLw.Bow@mtholyoke.edu>
  7. Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System)
  8. Organization: Mount Holyoke College
  9. References: <9212300616.AA25845@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com>
  10. Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:10:44 GMT
  11. Lines: 20
  12.  
  13. In article <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:
  14. >Mikhail:
  15. >> What I find obnoxious is the linguistic games in which you feel compelled
  16. >> to indulge, whilst justifying your claim to the high moral ground of the
  17. >> humanity's benefactors.
  18. >
  19. >Pardon my jumping in, but it does not seem particularly obnoxious or
  20. >dishonest to me to have a short english word in front of ..Software
  21. >Foundation instead prepending the name with a long paragraph explaining a
  22. >host of details.
  23.  
  24. Well said!  How about it, Michael... would you prefer the FSF called
  25. itself the...
  26.   
  27.   ...Free-to-users-but-not-free-to-would-be-profiteering-redistributers
  28.   Software Foundation?
  29.  
  30. --
  31. Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
  32. Northampton, MA, USA
  33.