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From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: national problems
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:39:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001108153959.A16675@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001108024812.00ac15b0@postoffice.brown.edu> <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKCEHPLMAA.davids@webmaster.com>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKCEHPLMAA.davids@webmaster.com>; from davids@webmaster.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:50:45AM -0800

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:50:45AM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > Now that it seems that George Bush has won the presidency, I am wondering
> > whether Linus and other members of the free software community intend to
> > leave the U.S. and go to more friendly places.  Imagine what G.W. Bush is
> > going to do to export controls, free software, copyright law, patent law,
> > etc....  Be afraid.
> 
> Which is more probable? That the author of this is an idiot or
> that 48% of the American voting public are idiots? Actually, I'm
> not sure.

Well... I don't think idiocy can be defined purely by who people
voted for. From my political view, more than 90% of all Swedes would be
idiots in that case :^)

Oh, and for those who didn't know, Bush hasn't won (yet); the votes are
getting recounted in Florida as less the difference was about 700 votes.


/David
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-11-08 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-08  7:50 David Feuer
2000-11-08  8:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-11-08  8:50 ` David Schwartz
2000-11-08 14:39   ` David Weinehall [this message]

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