Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!compass!worley From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: History repeats itself Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 14:57:21 GMT References: Sender: root@compass.com Organization: Compass, Inc., Wakefield, MA, U.S.A. Lines: 22 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 25 Jun 91 16:27:52 GMT In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Witness the FSF/LPF crowd... Watch it. There are lots of us who detest the GPV shenanigans but are in complete agreement with the LPF. Don't paint with too broad a brush, or you'll alienate many folks who would otherwise agree with you. First, what's "GPV"? Well, from where I sit (Boston, the epicenter of Gnu-ism), the activists in FSF seem to be the same as the activists in LPF, i.e., old wine in new bottles. Maybe there are people who support the LPF's objections to certain aspects of the current intellectual property laws but aren't against intellectual property entirely. But I've never heard one speak! (Until now.) That's what makes me extremely leery of supporting LPF, even though I agree with some of its causes -- I don't want to advance Stallman's software socialism, which I consider much more dangerous than user interface copyrights. Dale