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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 04:33:23 -0400
From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:45:37PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Somebody that Richard did not consider worth properly quoting wrote:
> > Freedom includes
> > for me that I can use any software that I have legally licensed (or
> > written myself) without people complaining about it publically.
> You are asking for the power to silence criticism.  That is not
> freedom, that is a power.

He is asking for the freedom to not be JUDGED based on the toolset
that he prefers to use.

An open minded individual would not confuse this with power.

mark

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