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mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to B) writes:
>abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

>> mathew> Rather than saying "Look what freely-available software has
>> mathew> done for you.  Here's why you should keep the software
>> mathew> freely-available..." they resort to restrictive licenses,
>> mathew> manifestos and propaganda about "evil software hoarders".
>> 
>> The GPL is an implementation of  "don't give them any assistance."

>No, it's an implementation of "don't let them do things a different way
>to the way we do things".  It doesn't say "you can distribute this software
>commercially, but we won't help you do so"; it says "you cannot distribute
>this software commercially".

This is, of course, completely false.  Our company is at this very
moment distributing software from FSF comercially.  It's just not the
usual, restricted way we are distributing them in.

>mathew

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