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- From: mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <mwalker-060193114605@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:50:48 GMT
- References: <D2150035.mtvsj2@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <C0F6GI.6DF@newsserver.technet.sg>
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- In article <C0F6GI.6DF@newsserver.technet.sg>, ipser@solomon.technet.sg (Ed
- Ipser) wrote:
- >
- > In article <D2150035.mtvsj2@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- > >I just wanted to thank the large number of folks who sent me email
- > >on this subject. It's nice to know there are lots of us who think
- > >Stallman is a kook.
- >
- > I don't believe that it is fair or accurate to describe Stallman as a mere
- > kook. If you strip away the leftist rhetoric and the "tax them to subsidize
- > us" drivel, you will find a very sound business idea. In essence, what
- > Stallman et alia are doing is charging computer manufactureres for the
- > privalege of having GNU software on their platforms which they then distribute
- > for "free".
-
- You mean, like Microsoft charges the computer manufacturers for the
- privilege of placing copies of MS-DOS on their platforms, which the then
- distribute for "free"?
-
- How is this different?
-
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