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Florin Iucha wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:47:24PM -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I think the problem with the name change is the Richard Stallman started the
FSF and the GNU OS in order to give people the freedom to do with their IP
what they wished. And now he's asking us to change the name of our group
before he'll come spend an evening with us.
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The problem is people can write, but not read. Read Mike's e-mail
again. Let me quote it, in case you lost it:
<snip something earlier>
So, P (change the name) -> Q (RMS meets with us) . How can you twist this
around to !P -> !Q is beyond me.
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The problem is that people can selectively read. Let me quote (RMS,
from Mike Miller, 10/7/2008 2:34 AM):<br>
<pre wrap=""> <b>*If the group does change its name*</b>, I would be glad to get together with
the group some time while I am there. That will be Oct 19 late
afternoon thru Oct 22 noonish.
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Now, you could whine that "if and only if" isn't in this sentence, but
you would be adding a fantastically rare non-linguistic implication
there.
The standard implication is that he would not get together if we did
not change our name, a.k.a not P -> not Q. Only one person could
clear that implication up!<br>
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-Dave Carlson<br>
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