Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Russ Nelson
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 22:48

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In article <0cHceB10w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:

   nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
   > In article <iRNaeB6w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible)
   >    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.

   False.  Those who want their software to be completely free are also unable
   to benefit.

Okay, let me put it this way:

The only people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't want
their software to remain sharable.

--
--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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