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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:19:23 -0500
From:      Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux
Message-ID:  <15079.16219.554913.497437@moran.grauel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010425143835.04a83680@localhost>
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Brett Glass writes:
 > 
 > Complaint letters to the IRS. Such a letter might go something like this:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Attn: Director, Exempt Organization Division
 > Internal Revenue Service
 > 1111 Constitution Ave NW, Room #6411
 > Washington DC 20224
 > 
 > Sir:
 > 
 > I am a computer software developer who makes a living writing computer 
 > programs. It has recently come to my attention that an organization 
 > called the Free Software Foundation, located at 59 Temple Place Suite 
 > 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307,  claims to be a 501(c)(3) tax exempt 
 > organization under the Internal Revenue Code but may not qualify as such.

 > ...and more sour grapes.

Recently, huh?  A nice, truthful way to start a letter like that.
Congratulations -- you've just managed to get me off my duff and do some
work in support of the FSF.  While I'm personally more in favor of the BSD
license, I admire and respect what the FSF has done.  

-- 
Richard Kuhns			rjk@grauel.com
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