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- From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.191356.1243@lth.se>
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- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <KEVIN.93Jan5162507@calamityjane.edscom.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan7.004313.19059@husc3.harvard.edu> <lkodpvINNs9h@cash.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:13:56 GMT
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- In article <lkodpvINNs9h@cash.cs.utexas.edu> woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
- >
- > 2) It's [FSF] just a name. Who's next GM, they don't make "General"
- > motors, just ones that work in their cars. IBM, they don't
- > just make "Business Machines" they make PC's and also sell
- > software. In fact they could charge money to get/use/modify
- > their code, and still keep their name...
-
- Yes, and "General Motors" is a pretty meaningless name... But
- when you ask something about a GM car, you're not told that it is
- so "general"! About the FSF you will hear time and time again
- that the software is FREE!
-
- Big difference.
-
- >Announcer: Congrats Bob, we're going to give you $10 million
- > for FREE!
-
- See? :-)
-
- Use the acronym, FSF, to avoid problems, and call it "FSF software".
- Or even better and more appropriate, call it "GPL software".
-
- That would make things equivalent and silence the critics, even
- Mathew I believe. Hell, "G" even means "general".
-
- Bengt.
- --
- Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
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