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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
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Date: 25 Jul 89 19:28:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)

In article <5202@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >   operating system with freely redistributable source code.  The GNU
> > ! Project is led by Richard Stallman.  Note that use of these groups to
> > ! discuss topics considered contrary to GNU aims and political
> > ! philosophy are considered off-limits (e.g., porting of GNU code to
> > ! Apple machines, usefulness of intellectual property laws).
> 
> OK, everyone who didn't like sci.skeptic... have at it. This is rather
> heavy-handed censorship. If Stallman wants a playpen, I think he should
> use the existing mechanisms: i.e., moderation or mailing lists.

Not at all.  As we don't want a discussion of baseball in `comp.lang.apl',
so we shouldn't want articles about porting GNU code to Apples posted to
the GNU groups.

However, whether discussion of the usefulness of intellectual-property laws
is appropriate in the GNU groups would depend upon the newsgroup(s) used.
I'd see nothing wrong with such a discussion in `gnu.philosophy', for instance,
even though I support the GNU philosophy.

					--Scott

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