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From: benson@odi.com (Benson Margulies)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: If the user does the link
Message-ID: <384@odi.ODI.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 89 00:43:49 GMT
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Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson Margulies)
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In article <32893@bu-cs.BU.EDU> gjc@bu-cs.BU.EDU (George J. Carrette) writes:
>If an operating system implements sharable libraries, like VMS
>has done for years, and like SUN is doing (modulo bugs) in
>their release 4.0 then "the user does the link" legal problem
>does not come up.

Funny thing. In private communication, RMS said that just the opposite
was true, at least for now.

I SURE WISH THAT UNIMFORMED FSF ZEALOTS WOULD RESIST THE URGE TO POST.

Mr. Tower nearly announced the imminent publication of "chairman
stallman's little red book," in his adualatory posting about RMS.

Well, its clear that as much bullshit has been posted in this
discussion by second-order FSF zealots as by FSF non-believers.  It
also seems to me that some of the doubters are at least as intelligent
as literate as RMS.

If the FSF wants to use the news mechanism to distribute a controlled
discussion, you-all should make the groups moderated. I volunteer to
send out the control messages if you don't know how. If you don't want
to moderate it, then you are playing King Canute in asking news
readers to read carefully, respond moderately, or learn to spell.

And while I'm annoyed: when is the FSF going to remove the
anti-semitic illustration from the cover of the emacs manual? The
supposed software hoarder could be copied from any number of Nazi
cartoons in the museum of them in Jerusalem.

-- 
Benson I. Margulies