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In article <11FEB199203371748@me.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
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>Ditto for me too.  But I don't think that people are talking past 
>one another;  the underlying philosophical disputes are real, even 
>if the specific examples we've used have been less than perfect.

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[ A very well-written summary of the conflict ] ...
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>The FSF has undertaken to convince many of our best programmers 
>to contribute their products in the name of preserving the right 
>of hackers to use and share code, but one of the side effects has 
>been to build a fence around some of the best source code ever 
>published.  If you find yourself _totally_ in agreement with the
>terms and implications of the GPL, no problem.  Otherwise, there
>seems to be no middle ground for those who really stand to benefit
>most from the availability of "free" software and source, ie,
>programmers.

Thank you for expressing my concerns so well.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.