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jprovo@Gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wandering Pedestal of Angst) writes:
> In article <BRUCE.92Oct5110747@suprenum.uxb.liv.ac.uk> bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (B
> >So you can charge a fee for copying it.  At no point do I see any
> >indication that your fee must be "reasonable", or have simply to cover
> >the costs of physically copying the software.  Perhaps it is
> >ambiguous, but you're not going to get sued for trying to make a
> >profit in this way. 
> 
> ...yea and verily, for I did accidentally peruse a _Dr.Dobbs_Journal_ and
> spotted people advertising outrageous prices for gnu-items ported to ibm-ish
> clunks.

Quite.  I'd pay a few quid to get Emacs on my machine, but since people who
have ported it can't be sure of getting more than one customer they have to
bump up their prices accordingly.  End result:  I can't afford Emacs.  Still,
having no software at all is better than having non-"free" software, eh?


mathew
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