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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 19 Dec 2001 20:56:43 -0800
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:

> At 03:22 PM 12/18/2001, Nils Holland wrote:
> 
> >The word "punished" in the manifesto is indeed amazing. 
> 
> It also appears in a speech he made in Switzerland (at KTH, I
> believe) not long ago. See
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html

But it's used just once and in a rather common, unamazing way, methinks.

And RMS should not be held to what he said more than 15 years ago.  (I'm
not sure what the threshold should be.)  We should be willing to assume
that both the Manifesto and its writer have matured a bit together, unless
there's recent evidence he hasn't.  The old stuff IS interesting, though.

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