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Re: the freedom to boycott non-free software



On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 01:59:44PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> As a note, RMS just wrote me back:
[..]

Would you mind posting the whole email?  I am VERY curious as to RMS'
stand on this whole issue, especially if it includes thoughts on the
software in contrib, which if I recall correctly he once described as
"compromised"..  (and we all know that a compromise in freedom is a bad
thing (at least I hope we do) and I would tend to agree..)

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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>            Debian GNU/Linux developer
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Eric Raymond:  I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck.

Richard Stallman:  Any software that isn't free sucks.

Linus Torvalds:  I'm interested in free beer.

Richard Stallman:  That's okay, as long as I don't have to drink it.  I
don't like beer.
        -- LinuxWorld Expo panel, 4 March 1999

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