Xref: utzoo alt.security:1365 comp.society.futures:1984 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!moray!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.society.futures Subject: Re: GNU (was Re: Feedback on Computer Crime) Message-ID: Date: 13 Aug 90 13:26:40 GMT References: <14443@wpi.wpi.edu> <9008081452.AA18175@stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV> <5=25C=1@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug10.035033.2122@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1206@cs.nps.navy.mil> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <1206@cs.nps.navy.mil> spl@cs.nps.navy.mil (steve lamont) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > [something or another about GNU] > Can we please drop this discussion from alt.computers.folklore? So far, a.c.f > has managed to remain collegial and fairly flame free... I'd hate to see it go > the way of alt.religion.computers, which was fairly light hearted until the > GNU issue came up. I apologise. I tend to fly off the handle whenever someone starts equating free software with the Free Software Foundation. I have this feeling that if people keep saying something without anyone raising a dissenting voice it will eventually be seen as true, regardless of the facts in the matter. This is not an appropriate forum for this debate, and I at least will drop the subject forthwith. I do question whether alt.folklore.computers (alt.computers.folklore?) was ever an appropriate group for the original discussion subject (computer crime). I didn't notice it in the original newsgroups line, but that might just be me. -- NAME: Peter da Silva. WOLF: `-_-' PSTN: +1 713 274 5180. 'U` DNS: peter@ferranti.com BITNET: Oavzgsz@AcadiaU.CA