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  3. From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
  4. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
  5. Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
  6. Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:11:27 GMT
  7. Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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  9. Message-ID: <1ilfovINN4je@shelley.u.washington.edu>
  10. References: <1993Jan7.202709.19083@husc3.harvard.edu> <1993Jan8.212126.21379@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1iksv5$8dt@agate.berkeley.edu>
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  12.  
  13. jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
  14. >They are wrong.  They are suffering from the Zeleny delusion.  They
  15. >would be correct only if they found out that subroutine S, written by
  16. >ANOTHER offer and GPLed by him/her, was in the program.
  17.  
  18. Actually, if these two subroutine S implementations are independent
  19. creations, they still would not be correct.  Of course, proving that
  20. two identical pieces of source code (if not trivial, and not written
  21. by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie) were really two independent works
  22. would be hard...
  23.  
  24. --Tim Smith
  25.