“Confidential White House sources have leaked to me a secretly
included draft section of the President’s State of the Union
address. These sources suspect that the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), a suspected terrorist group, somehow gained access to the
speech and included this section. It was purportedly caught at the
last moment by a staffer who was literate enough to understand what
she was reading. I release this copy of the rejected section,
exposing myself to potentially grave peril, as a public service to
our readers.“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you and my fellow
countrymen and say to you the state of the union of FOSS is good.
To be sure, there are challenges ahead, and obstacles to overcome,
but the inexorable tide of history is on our side. We have passed
the worst. For first they ignored us, then they laughed at and
derided us, but now they must fight us, and in the end, we will
win…”