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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.113746.18952@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:37:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.104835.29515@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan2.122330.18937@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- MZ:
- >>Semantic drift happens all the time, and it would be foolish for
- >>anyone to attempt to countervail its natural forces. However, I see
- >>nothing wrong with objecting to a certain form of semantic reform,
- >>which is being promulgated on hypocritically self-serving grounds of
- >>protecting "my" rights. I happen to have a vested interest in the
- >>current meaning of the adjective "free"; if you happen to feel
- >>otherwise, that is entirely your prerogative, and your problem.
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- GE:
- >Pardon me, but isn't "I am not free to make free software not free!" a
- >tautology, or something like that?
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- It is certainly not the former, in any logically meaningful sense; as
- for the latter, yes, -- in approximately the same way a raven is
- something like a writing desk.
-
- GE:
- >Give it up, already. Let's call it the "Freely Available Software Foundation"
- >and get back to work ...
-
- Is it freely available from its maker then?
-
- >--
- > - Greg Earle | Disclaimer: These are my
- > Itinerant Sun Consultant | opinions only, and not the
- > isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV | opinions of JPL. They just
- > (818) 353-8695 | let me post through them ...
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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