bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (06/30/90)
In article <387@necssd.NEC.COM> harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison) writes:
If someone who does speak for the FSF can clarify their position, I
would appreciate it. I am willing to believe their intentions are
good...
It seems that this discussion became inadvertently, but innocently,
segmented between two newsgroups. The segmentation seems to have
happened at a critical moment: between the acrimonious accusations
and the authoritative explanations. The FSF people in question have
described the situation in gnu.misc.discuss. Since comp.sources.d
missed the explanations, it's easy to see how misunderstandings could
arise. Please go check the recent traffic in gnu.misc.discuss if
you're curious about what happened (hint: It seems to have been a
classic case of miscommunication between widely-separated co-workers
on the project.)