Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source

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From: Doug Evans
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 08:19

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beau paisley (paisley@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> 
> This thread truly amazes me.
> [...]
> 
> The GNU mentality prevalent in Rich's original posting is sad.  I almost
> start to believe that people are falling for this.  Remember the 
> seat-of-the-pants, hacker heritage behind GNU!  Microsofts method
> of degrading the quality of software in the market has now truly been
> exceeded by GNU!
> 
> Remember: "Free Software is worth every penny you pay for it."

What truly amazes me is that there are still people who equate the FSF's
idea of Free Software with money.
People must get bored of hearing "it's not Free as in free beer but Free
as in free speech" over and over and over; and yet the point still doesn't
always get across.
--
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Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA     | "The Horrendous Space Kablooie."
+1 415 903 1412                       | -- Calvin

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