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Article #72470vendor donations to FSF
From: Dick Dunn
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1992 01:48
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1992 01:48
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rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes: >Actually, the FSF probably receives its largest donations from >corporations which sell non-free software. They likely sell hardware >too,... Of course they sell hardware...and the GNU software helps sell it. Lots of code, heavy memory usage, and great mounds of features is the software recipe for selling hardware (more memory, more disk, faster CPUs). That's also why these corporations love X--it sells even more hardware. Having a large base of free software is also good for them, since software is expensive. (Companies which sell hardware/software "systems" do NOT make their money on software, and never have.) -- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado ...Simpler is better.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e71af1b1f401c58d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-02-02 01:31:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!peregrine!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!raven!rcd From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: vendor donations to FSF Message-ID: <1992Feb1.014833@eklektix.com> Date: 1 Feb 92 01:48:33 GMT References: <RSW.92Jan31135835@delay.cs.brown.EDU> Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado Lines: 16