Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 02:27:24 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1989Oct18.080236.23848@rpi.edu> <559@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov's message of 20 Oct 89 01:15:19 GMT In article <559@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes: Regardless of the matter of the text of Alternative News Hierarchies, the fact remains that FSF considers that it "owns" the GNU mailing lists and is therefore the entire authority as to their content, despite the fact that operation of the lists/newsgroups are not paid for by FSF but by a large number of cooperating sites including public universities and government sites that are legally prohibited from making gifts of public funds/facilities for private political advocacy. Unfortunately for your cause, the price of FSF software is private political advocacy. This price isn't reflected in the bottom line of the above institutions. It is an easy price to pay. Can you come up with the $$$ so that universities and government sites can afford "real" software? Or are you going to write public domain software to substitute for FSF software? Or are you going use *your* words to convince people to spend *their* dollars? Or are you going to "pass a law"? -- --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.