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From: pierson@xenna (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: info-gcc is not a common carrier
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Date: 31 May 89 14:20:03 GMT
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In article <8905310246.AA00550@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu>, rms@AI writes:
>However, if you do disapprove of us for considering "censorship", I do
>wish to hear from you.  Even though I think you are mistaken, I still
>want to know how many of you there are.  Likewise, if you disapprove
>more of Apple than you did two weeks ago, then I wish to hear from
>you.

I strongly disapprove of look-and-feel copyright claims and lawsuits.
Partly because of this my next personal machine will not be a Mac and
I will buy no Apple, Lotus, or Ashton-Tate products as long as these
companies engage in look-and-feel suits.

I realize that use of gnu.* newsgroups (and hence info-gnu* mailing
lists) to promote uses and ports of FSF software that you disapprove
of must be extremely distasteful to you.  However, I also feel that
your threatened actions look, feel, and smell like censorship.  Such
actions will significantly lower my (and, I believe, other's) opinion
of FSF.  The ends do not justify the means.  
-- 
                                            dan

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