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In article <DREIER.92Dec10121615@phnom-penh.berkeley.edu> dreier@phnom-penh.berkeley.edu writes:

   In article <Bz22pL.GEz@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:      Some say that the FSF boycott of Apple is pointless simply because it's
      too insignificant for Apple to be effective.  To that I say that all
      effective political action has to start with consistent application of
      principles.  The LPF/FSF are "doing the right thing", and if not enough
      others follow suit to make it effective, that's a shame, but not a reason
      for the LPF/FSF to stop what they are doing.

   It is not at all clear to me that the LPF/FSF are "doing the right
   thing."  My livelihood depends on my ability to support myself by
   creating ideas that others find valuable.

Wait a second, wait a second here.  Let's make it clear who we're
talking about here.  The LPF seeks to restore the status quo, that
is, you can copyright a program that you've written, but you can't
protect an idea, only the implementation of that idea.  The FSF, on
the other hand, wants software to be a service, not a product.  The
goals of the LPF and the FSF are, if at all related, orthogonal to
each other.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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