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>>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:23:19 GMT, tyrell@herring.micro.umn.edu
 john> (john drexler) said: Nntp-Posting-Host: herring.micro.umn.edu

 john> Now look:

 john> I have followed the gnu project for some time, and do like
 john> (and, I admit, use ) the products that you have created.
 john> However, enough is enough. The PRINCIPLES upon which the gnu
 john> project was formed are quite harmful to the software industry
 john> and software programmers in general.

 john> Now I realize I am not going to change your mind, but listen:

 john> You are doing the equivalent to what the Japanese microchip
 john> industry did to the United States counterpart: dumping. Every
 john> time you create a software product, and give it out -- free --
 john> to the public, some private software developer is taking the
 john> brunt of it.  A software developer -- in the attempt to make a
 john> living -- creates a software program. In order for him to
 john> subsist, he HAS to charge a considerable fee to pay for his
 john> time and effort in developing the product.  Now YOU develop
 john> similar software for free. Which software would you pick as a
 john> consumer? A: Joe Schmoe's word processor -- 129.95 or B:
 john> Richard Stallman's super-duper gnu processor -- GRATIS. The
 john> choice is easy (as far as the consumer is concerned, and Joe
 john> Schmoe, software developer, gets it directly in the teeth.



	"Dumping"  does not seem correct to me.  The purpose of
dumping is to disable other producers so that the dumper can
ultimately control the market (and make handsome profits from that
control).  This is not gnu.


ps	try getting a job in chemistry before you whine about the
demise of the computer profession :)

Nathan Siemers

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