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Re: [Discussioni] OSD && DFSG convergence



On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:10, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:08:08AM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
> > > Sure.  Why don't we adopt RMS's?  That would be my first vote.
> > 	I always thought that the FSF's (and RMS's) Four Freedoms were
> > always the basis of the DFSG.  
> 
> The Four Freedoms actually came well after the DFSG.

Not so!  

On January 6 of 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said:

  In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look
  forward to a world founded upon four essential human
  freedoms.

As I recall, Debian postdates 1941.

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-Dave Turner                     Stalk Me: 617 441 0668

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters 
of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson



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