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Article #72656Re: Too Good to be True?
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 17:31
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 17:31
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In article <1992Jan15.054742.16385@raven.alaska.edu> floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes: >I don't agree. Creation of totally PD, free, whatever, software >by FSF would never cause one person such as you or me, to share >anything that we would not have otherwise. The GPL may actually >put you and I in a bind someday where we might even share something >that we would not have without the GPL. (It certainly already has >with me, and may have with you.) What a perfect example of a horrible mentality. "I can't trust you to be good, so I'll force you to be good." You won't build any moral sense with that kind of attitude. You're wrong of course. I know I've released much more free code because of the help I've gotten from others who've done the same. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/497-2922 | info@alfalfa.com 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.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e71af1b1f401c58d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-16 16:55:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!hsdndev!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Too Good to be True? Message-ID: <1992Jan16.173113.9003@alphalpha.com> Date: 16 Jan 92 17:31:13 GMT References: <1992Jan12.230031.5192@alphalpha.com> <ymHJeB12w164w@mantis.co.uk> <1992Jan15.054742.16385@raven.alaska.edu> Organization: none Lines: 25