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Article #666Re: Stallman's attitude
From: Ross Alexander
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 19:05
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 19:05
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meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: >Mr. Stallman has declared legal war on everyone who writes software >and thinks they should be able to charge for it, but I have yet to >see the justification for this. There may be some - I'm just saying >I haven't seen it. Justify it? what for? He can just do it, period. No one has to justify going into business - which is what RMS & FSF have done. They are competing on price, and they've set the price @ $0.00. A free enterprise system encourages competition and improved efficiency. It seems to be working fine. So meet the competition he has created on price, or beat it on some other facet (service, functionality, use your imagination). Software has become a commodity. Tough cheese for the people out there who thought they could get big margins by creating an artificial scarcity. Ross
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!philmtl!atha!rwa From: rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Stallman's attitude Message-ID: <1298@atha.AthabascaU.CA> Date: 7 Dec 89 19:05:22 GMT References: <8041@stiatl.UUCP> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 18