Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!vsi1!wyse!td2cad!mipos3!nate@hobbes.intel.com From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Why Sakari does not support GNU Message-ID: <1130@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 23 Oct 89 05:34:28 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1989Oct18.080301.23907@rpi.edu> Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: woodstock@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess) Distribution: gnu Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Posting-Front-End: Gnews 2.0 In article , sja@sirius (Sakari Jalovaara) writes: >I could be wrong. Then again, I feel I belong in both of these >groups: users and potential contributors. I would feel like I was >wasting my time if I wrote a program and then heard that someone can't >use it because he doesn't agree with my or someone else's political >views. This is a very interesting viewpoint of Sakari's; however, I don't share it with him. If I wrote a program and found out that someone else wasn't using it because she didn't agree with my political views, that wouldn't make me wish that I hadn't written the software. Also, Sakari's use of the word "can't", above, is a tad strong; it's not that they *can't* use it, it's simply that they choose not to. Their choice does not alter my or anyone else's ability to use the software. --woodstock -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes woodstock@hobbes.intel.com ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb}!intelca!mipos3!nate