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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Advertising on comp.emacs
Message-ID: <9861@admin.mips.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 23:49:03 GMT
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Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <915@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gsh7w@astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>In article <> jlc@wucfua.UUCP (Roving UIUC CS Grad Student) writes:
>
>#         If, on the other hand, you like the goals of the FSF, and
>#their software is useful, then you can help support the creation of free
>#software by buying tapes from them.                                 ^^^^
>             ^^^^^^
>If it's free, why do I got to buy it. Say what you mean, and mean what
>you say. FSF is creating low cost source code for editors, operating
>systems and such. It ain't free if I got to pay money for it.

They're not the Free *Media* Foundation, you know.  If you can get their
software from network sources without asking them to buy tapes or spend
time as free operators (rather than free programmers), you don't have to
pay a cent.

If you're not an opportunistic weenie, of course, it's always considered
in good taste to give them money anyway...
-- 
Roger B.A. Klorese                               MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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