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From: lewie@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeff Lewis)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: info-gcc is not a common carrier
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Date: 1 Jun 89 23:00:14 GMT
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> As far as I am concerned FSF is still the "good guy" in
> this fight .. ( note that I call it a fight , you call it 
> a mess :-) ) and the way I see it its a fight between two
> philosophies and not Berry vs FSF or Jon"Taxpaying"Shapiro and me etc...

Well, for what it's worth:  I think there's more to it than just two
opposing philosophies.  In fact, I would guess that the majority of people
hold views that differ from both Apple's corporate philosophy and Richard
Stallman's philosophy.  The way it looks from here is that most people
either don't care, or are caught in a bind by the political aggrandizing
of both Apple and RMS.

Just something to think about:

If the purpose of the GNU project is as a political weapon, then its software
ceases to be what it claims to be - free.

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Jeff Lewis (lewie@ee.ecn.purdue.edu)
Purdue University Robot Vision Lab