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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 1 Feb 91 19:06:25 GMT
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>>To me, this is just further proof of Mr. Stallman's distance from
>>reality on this issue.

I have to think that the FSF would be a lot different if they didn't have
MIT to sponge off of.

>almost always be some who do have use for it.  In the case of X, they would
>include hobbyists and researchers who need to port it, sites that need to
>tailor client applications (perhaps they would need xterm to emulate a
>different terminal), and programmers who are simply curious about how it
>works.  His goal is that these users should not be hindered.

How are these users hindered?  The sources to MIT's X are freely and
extremely available -- on plenty of anonymous Internet and uucp archives.
Someone's not on a net?  Get it from a friend, or from ICS.  ICS sells tapes
with MIT source.  Before you complain about that, note that the FSF also
*sells* their tapes, at something like $175 a pop.
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