Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Russ Nelson
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 04:30

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In article <iRNaeB6w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:


   I don't use GNU products unless there is no alternative.  However, I feel
   obliged to point out that if people who spend their time writing GNU
   software were to spend their time writing free software instead, everyone
   could benefit.

The only people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't want
to share their software.  *Why* should they benefit from free software?
Remember the parable of the ant and the grasshopper.

--
--russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
Peace is not the absence of war.  Peace is the presence of a system for
resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary.  War never creates peace.

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