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- From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.074807.29468@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan5.075021.970@shawn.uucp> <1993Jan05.231932.21087@eng.umd.edu> <lkmpp8INN4f4@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:48:07 GMT
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- In article <lkmpp8INN4f4@news.bbn.com> mjensen@BBN.COM (Martin Jensen) writes:
- > ...
- >This seems to be a win-win situation for all concerned. Cygnus and Intel
- >get paid for parts of the development work. We get 2 compilers (native
- >and cross) that we can *legally* use on over 1,000 workstations for
- >$3,000.
- > ...
-
- (The following is based on the FSF agreements I've read a short while
- ago. Of course, things could have changed...)
-
- Yes, you can legally use these compilers on all of your machines, and
- it is a very nice compiler. BUT --> if you ever sell your programs,
- and they use the libraries (oh, let's say you do a printf somewhere),
- then you must make ALL of your source code available for free.
-
- This is a restriction that most companies can not live with.
-
- Now, if the FSF changed their position on this, then I'd say
- they're open to re-thinking certain boycotts... Why don't they also
- boycott Hayes, or IBM? IBM does some serious work protecting their
- intellectual property and they are very big on object-code-only too.
-
-
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