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In article <2990@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:
>In article <NELSON.92Jan3232312@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
>>
>>The whole point behind all the legalistic jargon and rigamarole of the
>>Free Software Foundation is this: to let people modify and share the
>>programs they use.  I think that sometimes people who criticize the
>>FSF lose sight of that fact.
>
>	The purpose of the copyleft is to attempt to blackmail
>programmers into a particular political view.
>
>	If the goal was sharing, PD is fine.
>

	I thought about what I wrote above some more (and got some
good email) and am going to take another stab at it now that my blood
pressure is down.

	First off, the word "blackmail" is not quite right, "coerce"
is the word. Someone pointed out to me that all software companies do
this. True, and that is exactly my point, the FSF is no different.

	We have beaten this particular horse to death, so I will just
say that my upset was this attempt to imply that the GPL is NOT a
politically motivated thing. 




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