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From: sjl@amdahl.amdahl.com (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Spencer vs Stallman
Message-ID: <14087@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Summary: Look before you leap (or attack others)
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In articles <3470@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) and
<1948@megaron.arizona.edu> debray@arizona.edu (Saumya Debray) Henry Spencer
was attacked for his rather unkind comments about Richard Stallman.  While
I believe that Henry must have been in a rather bad mood at the time, he is
one of the few people in a position to make such comments.  His regexp
and strings code ranks with Larry Wall's (patch, rn, etc.) and James Woods's
(compress, egrep) as the best public domain software distributed on the net.
Henry has fought an honourable rearguard action against the trend towards
overweight software.  I think that Richard Stallman's contributions are
important enough to excuse large programs, but Henry has a good point that
more people should consider.

Richard and Saumya make sure you understand the context before posting in
future.
-- 
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