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  "date": "2002-12-23T03:24:41.000Z",
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  "title": "On joining the FSF: The first actually useful membership card?",
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  "html": "<p>Mark Pilgrim <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/12/22.html#pony_the_hell_up\">writes</a>: \"I am now a <a href=\"http://member.fsf.org/\">card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation</a>.  Software is free, but lawyers are expensive.\"\nAnd from the FSF membership page:</p><blockquote><i>You will receive a personalized, bootable, business-card-sized GNU/Linux distribution as your membership card.\nThis GNU/Linux distribution is based on LNX-BBC. New cards will be sent to renewing members every year if and only if there is a new major release of LNX-BBC.</i></blockquote><p></p>\n<p>So, not only can you give a little something back to a project from which most of us have benefitted from - you'll also get a membership card that's as useful in and of itself as carrying a swiss army knife, and as far as I know, it won't get confiscated from you at the airport.\n(Oh, and this entry is a test of the <a href=\"http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/\">NetNewsWire Pro Beta</a> weblog editor.  This is only a test.)</p>\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=ooocfo</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087661\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=11a9052fbb87efa5d8b2129f91a78ad8&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">mutaal</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221087661\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2004-05-03T23:55:06\">2004-05-03T23:55:06</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">dear sir \ni need the membership card of my name \nname ABDUL MUTAAL.\nplease send all information of \nthis card.\nmy addresss is\nARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL SUKKUR, SIND, PAKISTAN.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "Mark Pilgrim <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/12/22.html#pony_the_hell_up\">writes</a>: \"I am now a <a href=\"http://member.fsf.org/\">card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation</a>.  Software is free, but lawyers are expensive.\"\r\nAnd from the FSF membership page:<blockquote><i>You will receive a personalized, bootable, business-card-sized GNU/Linux distribution as your membership card.\r\nThis GNU/Linux distribution is based on LNX-BBC. New cards will be sent to renewing members every year if and only if there is a new major release of LNX-BBC.</i></blockquote>\r\nSo, not only can you give a little something back to a project from which most of us have benefitted from - you'll also get a membership card that's as useful in and of itself as carrying a swiss army knife, and as far as I know, it won't get confiscated from you at the airport.\r\n(Oh, and this entry is a test of the <a href=\"http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/\">NetNewsWire Pro Beta</a> weblog editor.  This is only a test.)\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=ooocfo\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087661\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=11a9052fbb87efa5d8b2129f91a78ad8&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\">mutaal</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221087661\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2004-05-03T23:55:06\">2004-05-03T23:55:06</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">dear sir \r\n\r\n i need the membership card of my name \r\n name ABDUL MUTAAL.\r\n please send all information of \r\n this card.\r\nmy addresss is\r\nARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL SUKKUR, SIND, PAKISTAN.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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  "summary": "Mark Pilgrim writes: \"I am now a card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation.  Software is free, but lawyers are expensive.\"\nAnd from the FSF membership page:You will receive a personalized, bootable, business-card-sized GNU/Linux distribution as your membership card.\nThis GNU/Linux distribution is based on LNX-BBC. New cards will be sent to renewing members every year if and only if there is a new major release of LNX-BBC.\nSo, not only can you give a little something back to a project from which most of us have benefitted from - you'll also get a membership card that's as useful in and of itself as carrying a swiss army knife, and as far as I know, it won't get confiscated from you at the airport.\n(Oh, and this entry is a test of the NetNewsWire Pro Beta weblog editor.  This is only a test.)",
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