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- From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
- Subject: Re: Concerns about the FSF and the GNU project
- References: <1992Dec7.032601.4662@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BURLEY.92Dec7105821@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <KFOGEL.92Dec10222029@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Based Education Research Lab - University of Illinois
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:50:27 GMT
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- In article <KFOGEL.92Dec10222029@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel) writes:
- >I am just confused
- >by a scenario in which free software is made illegal and proprietary
- >software is the only legal kind. What if I take my proprietary
- >software and tell everyone "Hey, here's the source, go ahead, it's all
- >yours!" ? Then it's free software (of a sort), and still proprietary
- >(I did what I wanted with my property, right?)
-
- How about if they changed the tax code so that anyone using your "free"
- software has to pay income tax on the "fair market value"...? Then
- define the fair market value of a C compiler as, say $2000, and make
- everyone pay 30% ($600) to use it. Of course, the commercial producers
- will get to play funny games with bundling, discounts, upgrade prices,
- etc in order to keep their prices in the same ballpark without dropping
- the fair market value of the "free" version.
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- Steve Peltz
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