From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-02 11:20:14 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:05:42 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92t8q0$bqc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <92qi97$9pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <92qp4t$ev3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 02 19:05:42 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x53.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3570 Date: 2001-01-02T19:05:42+00:00 List-Id: In article <92qp4t$ev3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: > In article <92qi97$9pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > Ted Dennison wrote: > > The FSF is just a tax-deductable umbrella group. > > Probably what is happening here is that T.E.D. is getting > the FSF confused with the GNU project. Its not tough to do. Both their .org URLs load the same page. Their quick explanation on the front page reads: The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/