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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.171845.18963@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 22:18:44 GMT
- References: <C08sBA.Gp8@world.std.com> <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu> <C0Au59.C4n@mtholyoke.edu>
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- In article <C0Au59.C4n@mtholyoke.edu>
- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan2.221526.18943@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
-
- MZ:
- >>The way I see it, the use of GNU places me under a legal obligation to
- >>the FSF; on the other hand, as a certified misanthrope with no ready
- >>ftp access, I have no way to obtain a copy for nothing.
-
- JB:
- >I know, this is the third or fourth article in this thread in which I'm
- >saying the same thing, but then I'm still not anywhere near Michael's
- >volume of repetitive rhetoric, so here goes...
- >
- >READ THE BLOODY LICENSE!
- >
- >"The use of GNU" does NOT place you under any legal obligation to
- >anyone or anything. Only the redistribution of GNU places you under
- >legal obligations to the copyright holder, the FSF.
-
- The use of GNU places me under a reciprocal obligation which limits
- its usufruit, regardless of whether or not I ever exercise my physical
- ability to do so. I know that it may be hard to figure out, but feel
- free to ask somebody in your philosophy department about the meaning
- of obligation.
-
- TOB:
- >>>In any case, the CopyLeft license can be easily obtained and read (As I'm
- >>>sure you have), so I can't believe anyone is truly misled.
-
- MZ:
- >>Consider a career as a copywriter; you have the right approach. On
- >>second thought, even that profession does not call for a small print
- >>explanation that the "Care Free" menstrual pads will not *really* live
- >>up to the insouciantly autarchic implications of their trade name.
-
- JB:
- >The above paragraph is apparently devoid of semantic content. Equally
- >apparent is that either Michael did not in fact read the GNU Public
- >License, or he first translated it into a similarly content-free
- >intermediate representation.
-
- May I suggest the alternative possibility, that you are
- constitutionally incapable of understanding an English sentence
- possessed of a subordinate clause?
-
- >--
- >Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- >Northampton, MA, USA
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-