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Article #73016Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors
From: Russ Nelson
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1991 11:29
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,246c9c7ef4135c55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-07 04:35:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!clarkson!news.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyleft & royalties for authors Message-ID: <NELSON.91Nov7062906@cheetah.clarkson.edu> Date: 7 Nov 91 11:29:05 GMT References: <25096@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <3NOV199114383049@minnie.me.udel.edu> <1991Nov3.233743.29063@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <4NOV199101065889@minnie.me.udel.edu> Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Crynwr Software, guest account at Clarkson Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu's message of 4 Nov 91 06:06:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu