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- From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
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- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <MELLON.93Jan10225128@pepper.ncd.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 06:51:28 GMT
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- In-reply-to: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu's message of 7 Jan 93 03:01:08 GMT
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- >FSF is inconsistent here. You can use GCC, for example, to compile
- >proprietary software, and you can use GNU Emacs to edit your proprietary
- >stuff. Yet, if you want to take one little routine from the source for
- >GCC or GNU Emacs and use that in your proprietary software, FSF gets
- >upset.
-
- Hm. Does AT&T require you to sign over the rights to your programs
- if you compile them with the Johnson Portable C Compiler? How about
- Sun - if you pop for the cost of their compiler, do any programs you
- compile with it belong to Sun? Yet, if you used a piece of the Sun
- compiler or part of one of AT&T's many copyrighted works in your
- program, you can bet that they'd be all over you like a cheap suit.
-
- How is this different from the FSF? I guess that the only
- difference is that the FSF is trying to do good, whereas Sun and AT&T
- are trying to make money. Apparently, you don't approve of doing
- good, but you do approve of making money. Don't be embarrassed -
- this is a common attitude in today's society. Sigh.
-
- _MelloN_
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