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From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: FSF censorship
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Date: 6 Jun 90 22:34:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu's message of 6 Jun 90 17:35:21 GMT

In article <RG`$}?$@rpi.edu> wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:
>Seen while browsing the source for gawk:
>
>X@comment We don't refer people to non-free information
>X@comment  In 1988, the original authors
>X@comment published @cite{The AWK Programming Language} (Addison-Wesley, ISBN
>X@comment 0-201-07981-X), as a definitive description of the
>@code{awk} language.
>
>Not too friendly given they later thank Brian Kernighan for his help
>with gawk.

Why is this censorship? You might not agree, and it might not be vary
friendly, but censorship? 

/Lars
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