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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.society.anarchy
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <9LPywB26w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 15:45:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.090712.9584@uwasa.fi>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- vinsci@brando.uwasa.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
- > 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.
-
- So why the hell did you buy the damn thing? Honestly, buying hardware from a
- manufacturer that treats its customers shoddily and then complaining that
- you're being treated shoddily is a bit perverse. Do you really think the GPL
- would have eliminated the manufacturer's ability to treat you badly? If so,
- dream on.
-
- > 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.
-
- Sounds to me like people have bothered to patch FSF software to work on your
- system, but they haven't bothered to patch the free X to work on your system.
- So what? There's nothing stopping you from patching X to run on your system,
- or paying someone else to do it. What, you mean you didn't take that cost
- into account when buying the system?
-
-
- mathew
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