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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.203834.6944@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan2.043903.18936@husc3.harvard.edu> <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> <C0AtLw.Bow@mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:38:34 GMT
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- In article <C0AtLw.Bow@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >In article <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> tob@world.std.com (Tom O Breton) writes:
- >>Mikhail:
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >Well said! How about it, Michael... would you prefer the FSF called
- >itself the...
- >
- > ...Free-to-users-but-not-free-to-would-be-profiteering-redistributers
- > Software Foundation?
- >
- Also, pardon my jumping in, but this discussion is cluttering up
- this news group. Could you please move it to private mail, or
- something. Kill files are really slow on this machine, and my
- time is of value.
-
- Thank you for your consideration.
-
- --
- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
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