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Article #1485Re: Fund raising at the FSF
From: Tim Smith
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 03:55
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 03:55
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Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish) writes: >their use. Pick some 'conventional software companies', do they do >this? Does Microsoft have the source for Windows available for ftp at >their sites? Is Microsoft perhaps not a conventional software company? As a programmer, I find Microsoft source code as available to me as FSF source code. That is, not at all. Compare two hypothetical situtations: Situtation 1: I take a job to write a program for a company. I realize that something I need to do has been done in Microsoft Windows. I can't use the Windows source, however, because Microsoft has not shown it to me. Situtation 2: I take a job to write a program for a company. I realize that something I need to do has been done in GNU Emacs. I can't use the Emacs source, however, because the program I am working on is proprietary. Looks the same to me. --Tim Smith
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!henson!news.u.washington.edu!stein.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF Message-ID: <1i8cgeINN8l6@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 4 Jan 93 03:55:58 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1i8cgeINN8l6 References: <9301021752.AA25483@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.231845.18945@husc3.harvard.edu> <C0B32v.2Br@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu