Re: LPF boycott of Apple (comments & quotes from RMS interview)

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1991 20:51

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In article <1NOV199104051049@minnie.me.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>The same right of ownership of intellectual property that makes 
>"CopyLeft" possible also gives companies the right to sell it
>and restrict the right to copy it.

   Yes, but the FSF does not claim any copyright on the interface to any
programs, nor does it engage in patenting software.  That is the type of
"intellectual property" that the LPF (and the FSF as well) would like not
to exist. 

   The FSF exists to encourage development of free software, not to abolish
traditional copyright law.  The FSF cannot stop anyone from writing and
selling proprietary software.  They're not trying to.  They're trying to
write free software so that potential customers will have an alternative to
buying any proprietary software, though.

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