Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:00:55PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > I think the argument is that FSF is being inconsistent (again), > > by publishing things like > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > criticising Microsoft's proprietary formats, while supporting > > Adobe's proprietary formats. > > [...] I think you are confusing the FSF's purpose with the GNU > philosophy. Note that the FSF and the GNU Project are two completely > seperate entities and citing an essay from one to contradict the > actions of another makes no sense at all.
I wonder if you are ignorant of the link between the FSF and the GNU Project. They are far from completely seperate entities. For examples, look at the copyright footers, or the GNU project history:- "The Free Software Foundation was founded in October 1985, initially to raise funds to help develop GNU." http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html As well as being written by FSF's founder and president, at the time of its original publication, the above essay was at the URL http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html as you can confirm from http://web.archive.org/*/www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Is it no longer FSF's position that Word attachments impede people from switching to free software? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
