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- From: steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <STEINARB.93Jan4112526@tindved.idt.unit.no>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 10:25:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.170815.18962@husc3.harvard.edu> <C0B6qq.B2F@news.udel.edu>
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- Organization: Norwegian Inst. of Tech./University of Trondheim, Trondheim,
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- In-Reply-To: zhu@athena.mit.edu's message of Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:12:14 GMT
-
- On ways of distributing free software johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
-
- >>> If you have a better idea, please share it; we're interested.
-
- To this tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) replies:
-
- >> How about the way X is distributed?
-
- And zhu@athena.mit.edu (Erin Zhu), follows up with:
-
- > Exceedingly good point.
-
- > If I may quote from the X11R4 release notes:
- [deleted]
-
- A lot of improvements to the MIT X code has never been merged back
- into the free MIT distribution. For two reasons, I guess:
- 1. It won't fit into the MIT code without large modifications that
- may affect other parts of the system.
- 2. It hasn't been made available to the X consortium.
-
- The FSF way at least seems to make more changes done by other parties
- being made available to the users of freely available GNU software (me
- among others).
-
- Example:
- o I can use GCC (with all the newest improvements) on a Linux machine
- at home without paying for it.
- o I can't use Motif at home without paying for it (Then again: why
- would I want to...? :-). I would be surprised if there's *no* MIT
- code in the Motif toolkit.
-
- - Steinar
-