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From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.050619.11560@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 05:06:19 GMT
References: <4607@lib.tmc.edu> <1682@digi.lonestar.org> <1991Feb1.232305.4895@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Feb1.232305.4895@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) writes:
>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
[...]
>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.  

Ahhh, yes.  But he would also be able to prove easily that he has
posted his intent to never use or look at or approve of anything
from FSF...  13,192 times at least.

Floyd
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