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Richard M. Stallman (135EA668) has already accomplished truly courageous feats, yet I fully anticipate more to come.  A good portion of his successes have enjoyed due recognition by those more qualified than I and in well establish befitting ways.  Consequently, this acknowledgment intends to focus on a facet of his demeanor that has personally inspired me most.

My salute is for the many instances RMS has held fast to his principles when conventional practicality would have caused the vast majority to abandon course and 'go with the flow'.  Before one can maintain this kind of integrity however, there must be solid moral convictions to stand behind.  It is on this point that I perceive a man decisively gifted for thinking 'outside the box' and apt at apply imagination in the quest for creative insights.  So I'm asking RMS to kindly accept my thanks for the benefits I've gained from the various moral examples he has set forth.

Pursuant to the above, I wish to humbly offer two modest tokens of regard:
  1st, the file showMe.gpg contains my original thoughts regarding this means of publicly registering comments from an originator to a recipient.  The file is encrypted since public disclosure of the full document may be inappropriate for some time.  Nevertheless, the appearance of this document in the GWR database grants full ownership of showMe.gpg [SHA1(showMe.pgp)= 3cc9edb34af49c8317cd830a17e171137e37de0d] to RMS (135EA668).  Consequently, any use the document is then entirely at the discretion of RMS.
  2nd, studying the philosophy of RMS has inspired an article which will be entitled The_Practicality_of_Evil.  While this article has not yet been written, the owner of this document (85E756C6-061200.135EA668) is vested with the right to call upon the originator (85E756C6) to complete this work for delivery to owner within one month's time.

redemption:=yes

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OK, that's that; and this text appearing after my signature is NOT an official part of the above {GNU.hope} Gesture.

I just wanted to note here that while my Gesture may rightfully mean precious little to you at this stage;  I can guarantee you that your signing it and sending to gnuHope@world1tours.com will mean a great deal to me.  Moreover, any Gestures from you as Originator to competent Recipients should mean a great deal to them also.

The above Gesture never mentions 'GNU.hope' so we are free to change the name and still retain the above as the world's first [whatever].  Moreover, while no specification has yet been written for GNU.hopes, I like the idea of the UID appearing by itself on the very first line.  The "redemption:=yes" is set because of the offer made in the paragraph preceding it.

Finally, (unless YOU see fit to retain any part of it) all this verbiage following my signature should be deleted before applying your PGP signature (with or without your optional comment as Recipient).

Asking you to give GNU.hope a chance,
Robert L. Stockhausen
a.k.a. Zack Clark