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From: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 1 Feb 91 23:23:05 GMT
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In <1682@digi.lonestar.org> kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:

>In article <4607@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>
>>[stuff deleted]
>>This still means that I cannot afford to have any GPV-protected code on my
>>computer, since I cannot risk having the source of some of my income tainted
>>by association with GPV code; whether or not it's infected by the GPV, I
>>can't afford the legal representation I'd need to defend my rights in my
>>programming. This is a real shame, as there are good tools that are not

Are you trying to say that if for some reason you were accused of
illegally using FSF code and taken to court, your defense would be to
state that you don't have any GNU stuff installed on your machine?
I'd be convinced....  Even if you could prove that that was true, you
could very easily have seen the source elsewhere.  

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