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From: asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 18.31 available
Message-ID: <184@cpro.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 21:39:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 29 21:39:42 1986
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In article <463@usc-oberon.UUCP>, minkus@usc-oberon.UUCP (Minkus) writes:
> In article <8611240122.AA22328@EDDIE> rms@prep.ai.mit.edu (Richard M. Stallman) writes:
> 
> >GNU Emacs 18.31 is now available in the usual place.
> 
> I am new to this newsgroup so would someone please tell me where the
> 				

Me too.  It is pretty arrogant to force all people to make the same
poor assumptions.  It breeds elitism and does not help to spread the
"philosophy" you are trying to spread.  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,
which puts the vast majority of us, although sufficiently knowledgable
about UNIX, into second-class status.