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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 6 Feb 91 13:20:59 GMT
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In article <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>Our rights to control our own programming are explicitly protected in
>the few cases that really matter to me: output of GCC/G++ and files
>edited by Emacs.

Emacs and GCC: yes.
G++: not when you link in their libraries.

>And who would ever sue a person making a good faith effort to abide by
>the GPV?

Why should the status of my code depend on what RMS had for breakfast?

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Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein