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From: tiemann@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: more bullshit
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Date: 31 May 89 08:09:22 GMT
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   My damn tax dollars payed for your machines at MIT.

   [ ... ]

   Just think about it, and if you must make proprietary arguments about
   FSF, ground them in fact instead of fantasy.  If you want to be
   fascist, that's up to you, but don't be fascist about things that *my*
   tax dollars are ultimately paying for.
   
Let's get facts and fantasies straight here.  Your tax dollars are a
consequence of your income, which you derive from your job as a
computer professional.  The high demand for computer expertise is a
consequence of the breadth and depth to which computers have become a
part of our society.  Computers may well have remained top-secret
technology, built by the few for the few, but people at MIT brought
them out of the closet and into the hands of the people--you and me.
Were it not for the MIT hackers, computers would have remained toys of
the military that paid for them.  MIT opened up computing.  They made
it possible for us to play with, then to study, then to work
computers.  The portion of your taxes going to MIT are but a small
fraction of the money you owe them for making your job possible.
Let's not forget that connection.

Michael