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- From: ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- In-Reply-To: tyrell@herring.micro.umn.edu's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:23:19 GMT
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- Date: 10 Jan 93 05:57:07
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- >>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:23:19 GMT, tyrell@herring.micro.umn.edu
- john> (john drexler) said: Nntp-Posting-Host: herring.micro.umn.edu
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- john> Now look:
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- john> I have followed the gnu project for some time, and do like
- john> (and, I admit, use ) the products that you have created.
- john> However, enough is enough. The PRINCIPLES upon which the gnu
- john> project was formed are quite harmful to the software industry
- john> and software programmers in general.
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- john> Now I realize I am not going to change your mind, but listen:
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- john> You are doing the equivalent to what the Japanese microchip
- john> industry did to the United States counterpart: dumping. Every
- john> time you create a software product, and give it out -- free --
- john> to the public, some private software developer is taking the
- john> brunt of it. A software developer -- in the attempt to make a
- john> living -- creates a software program. In order for him to
- john> subsist, he HAS to charge a considerable fee to pay for his
- john> time and effort in developing the product. Now YOU develop
- john> similar software for free. Which software would you pick as a
- john> consumer? A: Joe Schmoe's word processor -- 129.95 or B:
- john> Richard Stallman's super-duper gnu processor -- GRATIS. The
- john> choice is easy (as far as the consumer is concerned, and Joe
- john> Schmoe, software developer, gets it directly in the teeth.
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- "Dumping" does not seem correct to me. The purpose of
- dumping is to disable other producers so that the dumper can
- ultimately control the market (and make handsome profits from that
- control). This is not gnu.
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- ps try getting a job in chemistry before you whine about the
- demise of the computer profession :)
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- Nathan Siemers
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