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In article <2870@ski.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J A Biep Durieux) writes:
>In article <1989Jul13.064156.8613@ceridwen.uucp> lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson) writes:
>
>>It is Stallmans express opinion that selling intellectual achievements
>>is immoral, haven't you read the real GNU manifesto? (I must say that
>>I sympathize strongly with him on this point)
>
>That's a gotspe!  What does he think about the ethics of robbing others from
>their sources of income by copying their products and distributing them for
>free?

Oh come on! I don't think that the concept of a C compiler is exactly
a new idea! The implementation is what counts, and that is purely
his own. Actually, I think it is a shame that all those manufacturers
out there can't get a decent compiler out while a single man can.
(Apologies to MIPS and the few other companies that *did* get it right).

Most likely your manufacturers C compiler is still almost identical
to 12 year old pcc, with just a few changes to make it generate
more-or-less correct code.

>
>If he had created something himself, instead of just stolen other peoples'
>ideas and implemented them...
Like Emacs?

>
>What does he think about the following:  You work a few years and write a
>book which becomes popular.  He studies the book, invents a way of
>printing books like that completely without looking at the way you did it,
>and he starts distributing copies of his not-your-book?

Wrong analogy. He just goes out and writes a book about the same subject.
Nothing wrong with that, and also completely accepted. Just count the number
of books on WordPerfect for fun....
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