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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU
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Date: 20 Oct 89 02:06:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu's message of 19 Oct 89 20:31:23 GMT

In article <4245@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall) writes:

   The use of "free" software (working and beautifully-written, too) as a kind
   of intellectual and economic cudgel to be used to smite those whose
   viewpoints do not coincide with your own is a dismal and pathetic gesture,
   not a noble one.

Interesting kind of cudgel.  You have to use it on yourself for it to have
any effect!  Shades of Monty Python's _Holy Grail_: Die Jesu Domine *clonk*
Domine est requiem *clonk*.

If the use of "free" software hurts you so much, stop using it!
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.
A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.