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hjb@netcom.com (Hwa-Jin Bae) writes:

>In article <19420@comton.airs.com>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote:
>>If you purchased support from Cygnus, you would get source code
>>(perhaps modified) and binaries, and you would be permitted to give
>>them to your friend.

>what if the person did not purchase the support from  cygnus, can the
>person still get the source code?  if not, why not? 

No, as you know, Cygnus is a vicious proprietary software organization
which withholds source code from all but its hapless and naive
customers.  If only they knew the sources were available for free!
They never be so foolish as to pay money to Cygnus, the focus of evil
in the software world.

Somebody should explain to those customers what they are missing!
Somebody should explain to those customers that they should take the
Cygnus software and make it available on the net!  If they did, not
only would it break Cygnus's evil monopoly, it would advance the code
of free software everywhere by introducing new slightly different
versions of code which is already available!

In fact, why don't you explain all this to the Cygnus customers!  I'm
sure you can find the names of some of them in the evil Cygnus
marketing literature!

[ This posting is closed captioned for the sarcasm impaired ]

Or maybe Cygnus should go into the tape distribution business.  It
might take some money away from the FSF tape distribution business,
but, who cares?  It's the principle that counts.
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  profoundly unfashionable; which is that a planned economy can be more
  productive - and more morally desirable - than one left to market forces.''