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Article #686Because you think I misrepresent RMS, it's OK to misrepresent me?
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 14:39
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 14:39
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I didn't say: > "Because RMS believes selling software is evil, he leads a movement to > make selling software illegal." Well... (a) That's his stated goal. (b) That's the implied goal in section 2b of the GNU public license. I'm saying "RMS is leading a movement that is attempting to make people unwittingly lose their intellectual property rights, because he believes that restricting the use of software to people who have paid for it is evil." > Rather, I've seen > him proposing some rather sane changes to copyright laws. You could > still sell software for money and keep the source secret after > these changes. Isn't that at odds with the GPL? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com> `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.religion.computers Subject: Because you think I misrepresent RMS, it's OK to misrepresent me? Message-ID: <4754@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Dec 89 14:39:09 GMT References: <2558@flatline.UUCP> <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <25770F75.3EA@rpi.edu> <1913@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <1989Dec7.075641.13191@news.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 23