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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:38:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >[...] on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
- >ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.
-
- *bzzzt*... wrong! You obviously have /some/ kind of network access, or
- you couldn't be posting your never-ending stream of misanthropic rhetoric.
- Given that you apparently have an e-mail address you can obtain GNU software
- "for nothing" via your friendly Internet e-mail<->FTP gateway.
-
- Now, if you claim that that's still not "free" because you have to pay
- some kind of network access fee, or whatever, I would have to point out
- that you'd also have to pay for a blank tape, or bus fare, or postage,
- or whatever to obtain GNU software by /any/ means unless you expect the
- FSF to pay for a tape, make it for you, and deliver it to your residence
- at not charge. If /that's/ the definition of "free" you require, good
- luck in life...
-
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- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- Northampton, MA, USA
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