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From: richard@islenet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <3470@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 00:14:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 00:14:18 1987
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In article <8520@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > ... Additionally, Stallman prefers using machines
> > with larger address spaces because they're easier to program. This
> > is understandable, since it allows him to concentrate his time on
> > things other than trying to reduce the size of things to fit in 640K.
> 
> A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
> program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.
>

Leave it to someone who's been using small, out-dated equipment for
years now to be so publicly unkind.

How seemingly intelligent people can find the need to belittle
others publicly, without provocation, is a mystery.

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.



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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii