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Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Fri Oct 31 12:11:13 UTC 2008


"Andreas K. Foerster" <list at akfoerster.de> writes:
> ciaran writes:
> > but there are some cases where a bad would be a good idea, such as 
> > in government offices and schools.

Oops.  Typo: s/bad/ban/

My point was that non-free software should be banned in governments and
schools.

(And further I was arguing that a complete ban on *selling* non-free would
be worth considering, but that a complete ban on writing or publishing
non-free software is probably going too far.)


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