If you can't or won't recommend anything
everything goes to Microsoft. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] 
> On Behalf Of Richard Stallman
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: Paul de Weerd
> Cc: hans@stare.cz; misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Real men don't attack straw men
> 
>     | I don't recommend Torvalds' version of Linux.  The 
> versions of Linux
>     | in Ututo and gNewSense, which I recommend, do not have 
> the blobs.
> 
>     Interesting, these linux distributions.
> 
> They are GNU/Linux distributions.  (See
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.)
> 
> 					    They seem to be pretty new,
>     what did you recommend before these came onto the scene ? None of
>     these seemed to exist 8 years ago.
> 
> Nothing!  For many years there was no system distribution I
> could recommend to the public, and that is what I said.
> 
>     You are, however, being asked to explain how you combine 
> these views
>     with the support for several non-free OS'es within the copyleft
>     software packages of emacs and gcc.
> 
> Yes, after one person brought this up, many others repeated it (as if
> sheer volume of namecalling meant something).  My message about this
> issue will go out in the same batch as this message.
> 
> One person asked why it was "hard" for me to answer this question.
> It wasn't hard for me to respond, but it would have been impossible
> to respond quickly.  I have to sleep, you know.  And since I review
> my messages before actually sending them, I don't send mail quickly.
> 
> It usually takes 12 to 24 hours from when a message is sent to when I
> send a response.  Plenty of opportunity--for those who seek one--to
> claim that my silence proves I have no comeback.