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Article #683Re: Stallman's attitude
From: Ross Alexander
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1989 22:26
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1989 22:26
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barmar@Think.COM writes: >In article <8078@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: >>why shouldn't music be free? [...] >a living? (Well, RMS would like to see the government paying programmers >to produce free software, so I guess the government could also pay >composers, artists, writers, etc. -- in other words, composers should be >paid by the NEA, and the music would be free.) We do that in Canada, it's called the Canadian Arts Council, and is considered eminently respectable. We also have socialist governments from time to time, and socialist medicine. Somehow this runs in parallel with a private market economy just fine. Americans can be _so_ ethnocentric! 100 * :-). (So can we Canuks, mind). Ross
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!cbmvax!atha!rwa From: rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Stallman's attitude Message-ID: <1304@atha.AthabascaU.CA> Date: 10 Dec 89 22:26:27 GMT References: <8078@stiatl.UUCP> <32101@news.Think.COM> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 16