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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: FSF vs Apple -- please think again
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:09:21
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
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- In-reply-to: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 21:07:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.160747.19249@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
- >I would like to find out to find the extent to which the Foundation's
- >pursuit of its beliefs in this matter conflicts with its tax-exempt
- >status, insofar as it surely contradicts its alleged charitable ends.
-
- Mikhail, I get the strong impression that, at this point, you are simply
- looking for anything to be contrary about just because you don't like the
- FSF. You made your original point fairly clearly, I think. You are
- greatly diminishing the force of your argument by bringing up lots of
- tangential (and sometimes wrong) facts or opinions, and muddying up the
- issues considerably.
-
- If the FSF were hurting its tax-exempt status by refusing to port GNU
- software to the Mac, or refusing to merge contributed ports into our
- working sources, the IRS would have known about it years ago. It's
- obviously not a problem. We have an auditor examine our records every year
- to make sure we are still complying with the tax exemption rules.
-
- You can't even claim we are forcing anyone else not to port GNU software
- to the mac. We haven't, and such ports already exist. We merely ask
- people not to for what we think are good reasons.
-