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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Lotus decision (was Re: The Official Word...)
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Date: 5 Jul 90 19:48:15 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article  <3060.26932146@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes:
]In article <1990Jul3.201225.18096@ico.isc.com>, rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
]...
]All that having been said, read the message on the League for Programming
]Freedom carefully. This is not the GNU manifesto. It appears to have been
]written not to further the FSF's political views, but to mobilize
]broad-based support for the specific idea of fighting against look and feel
]lawsuits. I found nothing in it that I could not agree with, and after
]checking on the status of my bank account, I will probably be sending in my
]check.

You have to be careful about these things though.  It would be hard,
if not impossible, for Richard Stallman to keep his own more radical
views out of whatever LPF does.  How many times have you heard of
political groups doing things outside of their charter (against the
wishes of the paying membership).  It isn't at all unusual.
-- 
					David Gudeman
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona        gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
Tucson, AZ 85721                 noao!arizona!gudeman