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In reply to Richard Stallman's critics, information hoarding and the 
rights of company employees to earn a living is not the issue.

By using FSF/GNU software, written to promote the continued availablity
of free, user-modifiable source code, look and feel plaintiffs like
Apple are abusing the reasons for the existance of the FSF.  Such companies
exploit their powerful positions by using, to whatever degree, FSF/GNU
software, for products which will often be subject to constricting and
damaging protection, as seen by the well publicised Apple/Lotus/Ashton-Tate
cases.

Why don't Apple supply their employee with an editor for the Sun (this is
written assuming that the Sun machine in question is Apple-owned for Apple
development, and not for entirely personal use)?  Where has the information 
been hoarded?  There aren't many major software products which are free, come 
complete with source code, and have `free' support from interested users together
with regular free updates.  There seems to be a massive amount of freely available
information!  (Note how many emacs clones exist).

Andrew D. Nimmo
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