Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!umd5!crabcake!arromdee From: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU Message-ID: <209@crabcake> Date: 25 Oct 89 16:10:37 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <192@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Reply-To: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) Distribution: gnu Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept. Lines: 26 In article <192@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill writes: >So if you don't like the political baggage that comes with GNU >software, don't use it! You're certainly entitled to disagree with >rms', or anyone else's, opinions. The subject of this thread is "Why I do not support GNU". Seems we have come full circle here... >> (Any sci.philosophy.people around? I find this a frightening idea. >> Because not only did Gandhi break the law for his beliefs, so did his >> murderer. How am I to know which laws to obey? >I don't know diddly about Finnish political history, but in the U.S.A. >we're raised on the concepts of Freedom and civil disobedience. >Rather than finding them frightening, we find the thought of not >having them frightening. ... "We"? What "we"? You, maybe. All Americans do not agree with civil disobedience. -- "The workers ceased to be afraid of the bosses. It's as if they suddenly threw off their chains." -- a Soviet journalist, about the Donruss coal strike Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm; INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu)