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From: L <L@...>
To: <rms@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Date: Sunday, January 6, 2008 - 7:50 am

Richard Stallman wrote:

Please review (and correct) my logic deduction:

1. negative effect is power users (you said)
2. power users are able to change OS (you said)
3. all people that use a compiler are power users.. only advanced users 
run a compiler
4. all MsWin gcc users are power users because of above point
5. the negative effect is therefore all MsWin GCC users
6. since the negative effect is all MSwin gcc users.. MsWin GCC is negative
7. GCC is to be removed from MSWin, since it is overall negative.

Where did I go wrong?

Or what is the reason for power users being negative?
Power users are advanced users... people that can switch operating 
systems. Their bundled OS with their computer can be changed - they are 
advanced enough to not fear changing bundled OS. So.... is it negative 
for power users to run GCC.. because they should be running a free OS 
since they know they can install one? i.e. they are abusing their GCC 
since they are using windows even though they know they can run an OS 
like gNewSense?

Since RMS you said that the negative effect is power users - I'm saying 
that since all MsWin GCC users are power users, then MsWin GCC users are 
all affecting FSF negatively. Because the logic deduction is that power 
users are affecting GNU negatively.. so if compiler users are power 
users.. then the logic is that all GCC windows compiler folks are 
negative.. and gcc needs to be removed? Where am I wrong or what am I 
not seeing that you see? Why do you think power users are negatively 
affecting GNU, for example?
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