Promoting prioprietary software

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 23:22

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Free software is a matter of freedom, not price.

The GNU project exists to promote the freedom to share software.
Proprietary software is not part of this.  Regardless of whether
the software runs well or poorly, whether it has good features
or not, or what its price is, it has been withheld from our community
by an owner who won't share it with us.

So the Free Software Foundation has set the policy that non-free
software should not be promoted on our mailing lists and newsgroups,
including help-gcc/gnu.gcc.help.  Programs that are being withheld
from the software-sharing community may not be promoted here.

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