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Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again
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At 05:18 PM 3/6/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>The bottom line is that every time I've seen you enter into such a
>debate, you inevitably wind up attacking Stallman. 

Understanding motivations is important. When you're analyzing or
reverse-engineering a piece of computer code, it helps to know
what the author intended to do. The same is true of Stallman's
actions and writings.

--Brett


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