Re: Stallman's attitude

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From: Phil Nelson
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 21:02

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In article <1889@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> It's
> the idea of telling someone that they are not allowed to sell their work
> which I don't buy... if there is no way to make money writing software
> we are going to need more rich people who can afford to write it for
> nothing, and there aren't many out there.

I'm sure Stallman is not telling anyone they are not allowed to sell
their work.  In fact, people sell their work to FSF!  But FSF is not
in the business of SUPPORTING software products that are not "free"
by the FSF definition.  So you can create software and sell only
binaries, etc, BUT you can't include in that software anything from
FSF!

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Phil Nelson (phil@unicorn.wwu.edu) at Western Washington University.

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From: phil@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Stallman's attitude
Summary: You can sell your work.
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Date: 7 Dec 89 21:02:54 GMT
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