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Article #73010Re: Copyleft
From: mathew
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 16:26
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 16:26
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barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: > Sure, you *can* work around most bugs. Does that mean that you should be > *forced* to? Why should vendors have so much control over their users? > Who should be in control here, us or them? > > What if your bicycle dealer didn't allow you to perform your own > adjustments and repairs (I'm not going to repeat the car analogy, which you > shot down pretty well)? So you're going to demand that we be permitted to duplicate the design of any bicycle and sell it, and that all bicycles be supplied with engineering plans? mathew [ I love the sound of breaking analogies ] -- Another would-be Mac owner put off by Apple's monopolistic practices.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b96b391a5a05c5ec X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-14 15:44:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!uknet!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyleft Message-ID: <V7TeBB2w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 14 Nov 91 16:26:30 GMT References: <ki1jj3INN68v@early-bird.think.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 19