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Subject: Be more careful about changing my words.
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Date: 17 Jun 89 21:53:56 GMT
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    To restate RMS's last sentence:

    "...I'll someday have to choose between giving up on GNU, paying a fine,
    going to jail, and going into exile."

I did not say it this way because this does not accurately describe
the situation I am talking about.

If some day GNU software is banned due to user interface copyright,
paying a fine would not enable me to continue distributing it.  The
fine would be *in addition* to giving up on GNU--not another
alternative.  (I considered the fine to be the less important of the
two problems, so I didn't mention it.)