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- From: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:56:49 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.205649.19242@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- Sender: galt@peruvian.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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- In article <1993Jan3.170815.18962@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >BJ:
- >>It has been repeatedly pointed out that GNU software is available free
- >>of charge to anyone with enough ability and time to learn how to use
- >>the various ftp-by-email services. This surely includes Mikhail Zeleny.
- >
- >Can you imagine a student account without ready access to a non-glass
- >output device, and a one meg disk quota? Good boy!
-
- Ok, so the student could get his software 1 meg at a time. He could
- probably even ftp it into a scratch directory and copy it off to floppies
- before the the nightly/weekly purging.
-
- >BJ:
- >>Is the software not free enough because you personally have not
- >>taken the time to find out how to get it for free, or because
- >>FSF does not include a list of all possible "free" ways to get
- >>the software at the beginning of each price of its price lists?
- >>
- >>Or is ftp-by-email not free enough because you have to pay a
- >>phone bill or own a not-free computer and modem to use it?
- >>
- >>Is it not "free" because my grandmother has never heard of it?
- >
- >This is getting tedious. I shall proceed to ignore you fothwith,
- >until and unless your grandmother teaches you some manners and
- >intelligence.
-
- good idea...
-
- cat >> KILL
- /Michael Zeleny/h :j
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