Re: rms: Stallman does it again

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From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 10:31:02 PDT


spooky thing with the Stallman one is that, even though I know and love
the complaint generator, that complaint was so like the sort of thing
people often write about him that I only twigged after a whole
paragraph... :-)

--danbri

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Robert Harley wrote:

> There are many problems with E. J. Whitehead's views. The one that's
> the most blatant, and the one that I will limit my discussion to, is
> related to his overt support of deconstructionism. What follows is a
> series of remarks addressed to the readers of this letter and to
> Whitehead himself. After hearing about his birdbrained attempts to toy
> with our opinions, I was saddened. I was saddened that he has lowered
> himself to this level. This is typical of the kind of noise
> E. J. Whitehead enjoys making. May we never forget this if we are to
> deny Whitehead and his cronies a chance to give expression to that
> which is most destructive and most harmful to society.
>
>
> >Um, was there a single fact in this entire tirade? I read it twice, and can
> >find none. Seems like pure slander to me.
>
> Of course it's pure slander. Premium quality computer-generated slander,
> lovingly crafted from the finest ASCII ingredients.
> See http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint for details.
>
> Rob.
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