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- From: wollman@aix2.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
- Subject: Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.205207.17773@uvm.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan10.140824.19162@husc3.harvard.edu> <6119@comton.airs.com> <1993Jan11.032430.19184@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:52:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.032430.19184@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
- (I think it's about time for Zeleny to join Farwell in my KILL file...)
-
- >Huh? in what sense is the PD source not readily available?
-
- 1. I create a PD program and pass it around to a few people (set A).
- 2. One of these people (B) creates a binary from my source and gives
- it to another group of people (set C).
-
- A is the set of people who have access to the source. C is the set of
- people who have access to the binary. B = A\cap B = the set of people
- who have the binary and the source. The people in C - B don't have
- access to the source, unless B chooses to give it to them.
-
- >I shan't presume to speak for you or your programs, but for anyone
- >*but* a skilled programmer, Emacs is *far* inferior to any generic
- >(WYSIWYG, graphical) word processor.
-
- Tell that to the graduate students and technical secretaries who use
- it daily at this any many other locations around the world.
-
- >[. . .]
-
- >The difference is, no single, dedicated agency has ever tried to
- >maintain and develop the PD extensions of X, TeX, or BSD.
-
- Wrong. In particular, MIT, Stanford and the University of Washington,
- and UC Berkeley, respectively.
-
- >What I have in mind may be imagined as a planned and
- >coordinated counterpart to piecemeal PD software development currently
- >undertaken by the US government and universities.
-
- If the US government plans to develop *any* significant piece of
- software, then they make sure that it was actually developed by
- someone who can claim copyright in the work, so that they can then
- turn around and charge lots of money for it.
-
-
- -GAWollman
-
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