RMS, previously, on Sun freeing java

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   (in a followup rudely copied to me *and* the list, despite my
   continued requests otherwise)

There is nothing rude about doing this, it is normal practise on
mailing lists.  I'm quite sure mutt (since that seems to be what you
are using) has some feature to remove duplicate messages if they are
annoying.

   I wasn't meaning to do anything but describe observable fact.

You are trying to observe something without having any data, this will
always lead to incorrect conclusions.