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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: choice of toolkits
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.172918.253@alphalpha.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:29:18 GMT
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>In article <9103110058.AA02712@mole.ai.mit.edu> rms@mole.ai.mit.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes:
>>Some of you may hope to use the GNU system when it is completed.  The
>>GNU system will come with all the free toolkits, but it won't come
>>with any proprietary ones.

Incidentally.  I don't see the FSF telling people not to use the 
proprietary Unix operating system before there's a functional non-
proprietary equivalent.  Why is the GUI toolkit space any different?
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.