On 7/4/07, Gerald Thurman <nanofoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello...
I was writing some stuff about the number 1776 and came across the following quote
from Stallman's "The GNU GPL and the American Way" essay: "The Free Software Movement
was founded in 1984, but
its inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community,
and voluntary cooperation. This is what leads to free enterprise,
to free speech, and to free software."
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(my 0.02: this is an excellent selection, and some good
reading material for today's world... I was almost tempted
to "cross post" this to rec.arts.books on Usenet...)
In case anyone [has some "free" time today, and]
wants to read the whole essay, it is at:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html
(maybe this is overkill, since that comes up as the first hit on a
Google search for the title; but)
I just thought it would be nice - and
convenient - to provide the link here.
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com