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- From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.213038.2088@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <D2150035.mrrnh5@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:30:38 GMT
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- In article <D2150035.mrrnh5@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- >
- >As to making "rash" comments, my comments were quite considered.
- >I've been anti-GNU for years now. They simple don't believe that
- >people like me have the right to protect work as intellectual
- >property. I make a living developing software and selling it - I
- >take this whole subject very seriously and I view the FSF ideas as
- >a threat.
-
- How fo you feel about software patents? If you're threatened by ideas that
- the FSF espouse, such as my right to write anything I damn well please, I
- hereby threaten you. How do you like me now?
-
- I feel that if gcc were released into the mac world, that would do far
- more to change the market than the boycott ever will. So I might port
- the thing to the mac and release only that which would allow porting
- _away_ from the mac.
-
- >Also, Stallman doesn't not intend to "GIVE SOFTWARE AWAY FREELY" as
- >you say. That's the little trap he sets. All GNU software is very
- >specifically not placed into the public domain. This is not being
- >picky, it goes straight to the core of what FSF and GNU software is
- >all about, that is politics.
-
- So Stallman intends to give software away freely? You're right.
-