On 7/4/07, Gerald Thurman 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." > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] (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. -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com