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Article #72782Re: Too Good to be True?
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1992 23:00
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1992 23:00
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In article <NELSON.92Jan9233040@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) 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? The commercial software developers are *not* at the end of the food chain. There's the benefits to the final consumer of the software to consider. Restricting the flow of software restricts the benefits to the end consumer. But if you believe that all software should be free, then by all means stick to the GPL - it's definitely the way to go. If you *don't* beleive that, then think twice before using it. -- 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: 1992-01-12 23:08:18 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!think.com!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Too Good to be True? Message-ID: <1992Jan12.230031.5192@alphalpha.com> Date: 12 Jan 92 23:00:31 GMT References: <iRNaeB6w164w@mantis.co.uk> <NELSON.92Jan9233040@cheetah.clarkson.edu> Organization: asi Lines: 21