Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!proxftl!bill
From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: So let's talk about FSF
Message-ID: <756@proxftl.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 01:59:09 GMT
References: <720@proxftl.UUCP> <14061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Organization: Proximity Technology, Ft. Lauderdale
Lines: 41
Summary:
Expires:
Sender:
Followup-To:
Distribution:
Keywords:

In article <14061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
: In article <720@proxftl.UUCP>, bill@proxftl (T. William Wells) writes:
: >                                 let's not push FSF and friends.
: >Their philosophy would make the computer business nonexistent.  Please
: >do not respond to this on the net; if you want to talk about the FSF,
: >send me e-mail.
:
: Of course this is going to be talked about on USENET.  Trying to hide
: it from everyone (maybe you have customers who read the net?) isn't
: going to work.

Perhaps I wasn't clear, so let me try again: *I* do not want to
talk about FSF on the net.  I would expect that to turn into a
flame war (on historical evidence) and I do not want to
participate.  If anyone else wants to talk about FSF, I have no
objections (not that they would matter anyway); I just won't
answer.

: FSF is not going to make the computer business non-existent.  It might
: make *your* computer business non-existent.  So what?

Not likely.  The diversity of abilities and knowledge needed to
make our kind of software isn't likely to come together for the
purpose of creating free software.  But anyway, even if it did,
we'd be moving on to bigger and better things.

: Do you use any free software?  rn maybe?  inews?  elm?  GNU Emacs?

Sure.  I have no objections at all to free software.  What I
object to is the philosophy that goes along with their free
software.

: Just waiting for the Randian analysis of what is wrong with FSF....

Well you won't get it here, unless another Objectivist wants to
try it.  If you really want that analysis, you can ask me vie
e-mail.

---
Bill
novavax!proxftl!bill