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Re: Copyleftability

#1929
From: Rodney Peck II
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 01:46
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>>>>> On 18 Dec 89 23:49:12 GMT, meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) said:

Miles> Abiding by the copyleft essentially is antithetical to making a living
Miles> in the USA writing software, except for the chosen few who have been
Miles> blessed with sugar daddies to pay for them to do just that.

No...  you don't have to use copylefted software to make a living.  If you
want to use the work those other people (and their sugar daddies) have done
to make money yourself, then you're doing something extremely unfair.

If you want to write your own stuff, go right ahead.
--
Rodney
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From: rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Copyleftability
Summary: make money off your work, not the FSF's!
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Date: 19 Dec 89 01:46:48 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY
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