Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works Message-ID: <70K&Z.&@splut.conmicro.com> Date: 20 Jul 90 20:09:26 GMT References: <1990Jul18.211712.27198@ico.isc.com> <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Jul19.175923.2015@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 21 In article <1990Jul19.175923.2015@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy) writes: >Perhaps you should look "official". RMS is a private citizen, and has >absolutely no power to prevent you from writing a GAWK manual that >reference the AWK book by Kernighan. He did, though, have the power to prevent the "official" GAWK manual from mentioning the reference. The comments of the author, about how working with the soi-disant FSF means playing by their rules, bear this out. >editing != censoring Editing can include censoring, though...the GAWK manual was edited for purely political reasons; therefore, it was censored. You're working awfully hard to defend the FSF from this charge, Greg... -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +---------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_