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Re: harmful effects of gnu software

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From: Jonathan Magid
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:12
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In article <1993Jan22.222424.24191@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
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>The point is, although I consider GNU a Good Thing in general, I wouldn't
>put any program on my home PC any more that I couldn't get the source to,
>GNU is weeding out the diversity of the software market. 

You did it! You just got the whole point of the FSF by accident.
Your standards for software have changed thus that you now demand access
to source code.  This seems (according to various accounts and the Manifesto)
the very thing that RMS hopes to achieve.

And rather than "weeding out diversity", this should just up the ante.  People
write great software *and* the user has the source available.  

If the consumer (you for example) demands it, it will happen. Thats what the
market is all about. ;)

jem.

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