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From: debray@arizona.edu (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 23:53:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 23:53:56 1987
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>>>> Stallman prefers using machines with larger address spaces ...

>>>A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
>>>program to save his life.  

>>But to attack someone who writes software and distributes it free of
>>charge, to attack them because they don't cater to your particular
>>obsolete machinery is amazingly selfish and stupid.

>I run on a 2MB 68000 and a 8MB 68020 machine, which to me has cheap memory.
>Which machine do you think I worry more about keeping happy?  A 68000 that
>is `outdated', or the 68020?  The answer is so simple only totally stupid
>jerks (like the last bozo ;-) can't see it.

Someone's giving you software free of charge.  As I see it, he's doing you
a favour.  And what's the response?  He gets called names, his professional
competence is questioned.  Is this how you treat people who do you favours?
Sheesh!

For all who're so upset about not getting Stallman to write their software
for them, hey, port the software yourself if you have the balls, else shut
up.  If you're not paying this guy, he owes you nothing.
-- 
Saumya Debray		CS Department, University of Arizona, Tucson

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