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- From: vinsci@brando.uwasa.fi (Leonard Norrgard)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.090712.9584@uwasa.fi>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:07:12 GMT
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- Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com) wrote:
- > According to johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston):
- > >[GPL code] is free-er in every sense of the word than any other
- > >software I've worked with...
- >
- > Then apparently you've never used X, or Deliver, or any other system
- > either public domain or copyrighted but released for unrestricted use.
-
- Unfortunately, I have to use a hoarded X display every day at work.
- The makers of it won't give us sources so we could fix the bugs
- ourselves. Clearly, the X way of distribution is not working;
- improvements as well as support for new platforms doesn't get back
- into the distributed sources. That's a corrupted distribution scheme.
-
- > The FSF didn't invent free redistribution, it corrupted it.
-
- While I can't get the X bugs fixed for the reason described above, I
- *can* run all the latest and greatest FSF software on the machines
- here. Clearly the FSF distribution scheme is working to the benefit
- of both the programmers and the user society, whereas public domain
- distribution does not, or does so for only a short period of time.
-
- > Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
-
- --
- Leonard Norrgard, vinsci@brando.uwasa.fi, +358-61-3248-435.
- "I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry
- forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even
- Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun."
- -- Hawkeye from M*A*S*H
-