Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!oddjob!matt
From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 18.31 available
Message-ID: <1586@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 18:47:17 EST
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1586
Posted: Sat Dec  6 18:47:17 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 06:57:50 EST
References: <8611240122.AA22328@EDDIE> <463@usc-oberon.UUCP> <184@cpro.UUCP>
Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Organization: U of Chicago - Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lines: 29

CAUTION: HARSH WORDS AHEAD

In article <184@cpro.UUCP> asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner) writes:

>If you really mean what you say
>about free software then you should make some effort to make it more
>available than some mysterious thing like "ftp", which requires a physical
>link to begin with.  The same goes for magtape.  It creates the horrible
>impression that the only people you want to share this "free" software with
>must either be DOD/DARPA-only sites, or sites with the $25K magtape unit,

Although postings from the likes of J.R. Stoner have been quite
few in number, I am quite sick of them already.  The Free
Software Foundation is undertaking a project of unprecedent
scale and taking great pains to ensure that the fruits of their
labor will be available at nominal cost to whining scum like
Stoner.  But this just isn't enough, is it, Stoner?  Do you want
your copy delivered by courier to your door and installed for
you?

Instead of your whining and bellyaching, why not describe what
format your hardware demands and ask if someone can provide you
with that?  And then promise that you will make copies for all
who need the same medium.  After all, all of us who have
obtained FSF software have the right (but not the obligation!)
to pass it on to others.
_____________________________________________________
Matt		University	crawford@anl-mcs.arpa
Crawford	of Chicago	ihnp4!oddjob!matt