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In article <930120.144723.7b4.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> 
mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:

>friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:

NF:
>>                             We believe most businesses can afford the $300
>> difference and will simply pay it to help fund us.  If they're going to be
>> dishonest about it, how would we know, anyway?

M:
>If I as an individual buy the CD-ROM for $100, and I as an individual then
>sell it to Mantis for $100, in what way is that "dishonest"?

I conjecture that Noah's notion of honesty would require you not to
undersell the FSF, thereby diverting Mantis' software acquisition
budget from its proper destination in the Foundation's charitable
coffers.

NF:
>Your terminology doesn't mesh with the "free" software rhetoric very well.

Oh yes, it does.  Read between the lines.

>mathew

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