From: tomas DOT fasth AT twinspot DOT net (Tomas Fasth) Subject: Re: Do we need commercial advertisements in the gnu-win32 list? 4 Dec 1997 05:51:01 -0800 Message-ID: <3486A21A.AE6B396E.cygnus.gnu-win32@twinspot.net> References: <009BDFEE DOT EA443220 DOT 29140 AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jason Zions Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jason Zions wrote: > According to your position, Tomas, I'm not even allowed to respond to > this set of assertions. How sad. Well Jason, I hate censorship. So please respond as you like, as long as you use a common sense of what's within the scope of this list and what's not. I honor free speach and all such that goes with basic human rights. And I don't feel good about making this into a fight between you and me. But I thought there was a reason for naming this list GNU-win32. GNU stands for certain fundamental principles. Commercial binary-only software is not part of it as I understand. I respect you as a frequent contributor to this list and consider you an individual among individuals, but not a representative for your company. And that's the whole point. Please don't trade your well deserved reputation in this community of freeware consumers and contributors for some possible marginal gains in sales of your company's commercial products. Not doing this might affect your personal earnings in some way, but that goes for everybody on this list I guess. I consider keeping a low commercial profile a proper behavior on a list like this. Sorry for making you feeling sad. Tomas - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".