Alastair Houghton <address@hidden> writes:
Rather maybe think of it like a FOO.edu address.
Actually, that's *exactly* how I think of it. The behaviour of a
student with a FOO.edu address reflects on the institution of which
they are a part, and it's in that sense that people with gnu.org
addresses represent the FSF.
"Reflects on", sure, but rather weakly. Nobody's going to lose much
sleep if a Harvard student flames somebody on a mailing list
somewhere,
and it won't have much effect on Harvard's reputation, because it's
generally understood that there are lots of silly people at
universities,
and that no attempt is made to control their behavior.