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In article <C0Asur.B1E@mtholyoke.edu> 
jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>In article <1993Jan3.054314.18948@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>Here our intuitions diverge.  If your argument is correct, I see the
>>price differential as a way of offering a $300 reward for lying.

JB:
>They do not have to "lie".  An employee can purchase the disk at
>individual prices, and since the GNU license allows her to redistribute
>the software she can then install it on company computers.  Since there
>is no "acceptance of distribution" (or "recipient") license, no "lying"
>is involved.

Obviously our standards of honesty differ.  If I were to give my
employee $100, and send her down the street to the FSF office with an
instruction to purchase a CD-ROM, and subsequently to install the
program on my machines, I would judge my request as doubly dishonest.

>--
>Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
>Northampton, MA, USA

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."