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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:26:08 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
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- tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
- >> In retrospect, I wish we had name FSF the:
- >> Software Freedom Foundation
- >> but it's way to late now.
-
- In article <yqZwwB12w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- >Why?
-
- It would cost FSF thousands of dollars to do a name change (legal costs,
- since they are an official nonprofit corporation, stationery, office
- stuff, etc).
-
- It would create a lot of confusion. People know who FSF is; they don't
- know who SFF is.
-
- Changing to SFF wouldn't shut people like you up, since you will continue
- to argue that Gnu-licensed code does not provide freedom.
-
- No three-word name is going to be completely accurate anyway. Why don't
- you guys go off and argue with OSF about their name for a while?
-
- If this name had been chosen early on, it might have been better, but
- as Len says, it is too late now since the costs of a name change (to
- any new name) outweigh the benefits.
-
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- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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