From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 25 14:19:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moran.grauel.com (usr1-29.mintel.net [63.81.123.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E4337B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjk@moran.grauel.com) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by moran.grauel.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3PLJOj65513; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:19:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjk) From: Richard J Kuhns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15079.16219.554913.497437@moran.grauel.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:19:23 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010425143835.04a83680@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010424195227.0454c700@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010425143835.04a83680@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.4 (patch 1) "Copyleft" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message