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Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors

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From: Russ Nelson
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1991 11:29
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In article <4NOV199101065889@minnie.me.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:


   GNU is trying to pretend that CopyLefting is not inconsistent 
   with a desire to sell a software product commercially;  anyone
   with an ounce of common sense can see that an arrangement in
   which copying is unrestricted will not lead to commercial success.

The success of Cygnus disproves your point.

   [Public domain] is the mechanism by which genuinely free software
   is distributed; it is also the mechanism by which academics have
   traditionally distributed intellectual contributions.

We can argue semantics back and forth all day, but remember that freedom
for the wolves is tyrrany for the sheep.

--
--russ <nelson@clutx.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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