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In <1992Feb27.153936.2541@franklin.com>, Jesse Perry writes:
>abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
>>jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>>
>>>    That's the famous "what's your's is mine, what's mine is mine"
>>>philosophy, isn't it?
>>
>>Jesse> What point are you trying in your last sentence?

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>
>But ignoring that, your position summaries seem only loosely
>related to the original quote. My view of that quote is
>that it's a perfect statement of what I dislike in the GPL,
>which says to people who use FSF code to build new programs:
>"The work you do belongs to us (i.e., we insist on complete
>control of any distribution terms), and naturally, what we
>write also belongs to us."  This gives me an impression of
>both arrogance and inflexibility.
>

    Well, as you didn't respond to my lasst clarification, and still
don't see the relative point of the quote, let's look at the facts
for a second. FSF software and code exists. It is theirs at the 
present time. Now if you take some gnu code, which is theirs, but
they're nice enough to let you use it,under certain restrictions,
and you add on some of your code, them want to claim their code and
not give any of the code away, wouldn't you say that that's fair?
    Or, to take the counter example, let's say you write a nioce little
spreadsheet, and out of the goodness of your heart, you put
it out into the public domain, including source code. So I take your
code, maybe slap a windows 3 interface on it, copywrite it, and start 
giving Lotus a run for ytour money. When I mention in Forbes when they
interveiw me for making my first million, about how I started with this
public domain program, assuming I'd mention it, I suppose you'll just
say to yourself," gee, I'm sure glad someone got some use out of my code".
    I know I would.


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