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Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: John W. Eaton
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:12
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In article <1993Jan11.144521.19192@husc3.harvard.edu>
zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

> By the same token, should they release their programs into the public
> domain, the FSF would *gain* the support of many people currently
> disagreeing with the GPL.

No kidding.  I suspect all those who would like to get something for
nothing by creating proprietary versions of Emacs, gcc, and other GNU
software would be dancing in the streets.

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From: jwe@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
Date: 11 Jan 1993 22:12:08 GMT
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