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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Ethics in programming
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In article <DHCEtF.Mxn@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>,
Daniel Finster  <DF at SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> wrote:

>I'm not opposed to the concepts of free flow of information, and
>sharing programs with others.  I -AM- opposed to the particular
>communist overtones of RMS' philosophy, expressed in the GNU
>Manifesto.

I bet you didn't know that RMS possesses a piece of paper with the
names of forty-seven card-carrying atheist programmers written on
it.

>I think he needs to be dumped in the cold-load stream with a bar of
>soap. Leave him there for a few hours to clean up, cut his frigging
>jesus beard and hippie hair off, and lock him out of the AI Lab for a
>few months or so to let people disinfect the building.

Yup.  I bet you didn't know that.

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