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Article #73794Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?
From: Industrial Poet
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 13:08
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 13:08
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edguer@charlie.CES.CWRU.Edu (Aydin Edguer) writes: > In article <17302@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) w > >Who pays for efficient word processors with well-designed GUIs and > >tastefully presented bells and whistles? > > The people who want them. The rest of use can use groff and TeX and > psroff and dvips and ghostscript and xdvi and xproof and .... No, that's the current system. Under the GNU ideal, *some* people who wanted the efficient WP would pay for it. Others would sit back and grab a copy later on at someone else's expense, making do with an inferior program in the mean time. mathew
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,566ddbfb9b33042 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-24 23:27:25 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly? Message-ID: <cPBL618w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 24 Jul 91 13:08:47 GMT References: <1991Jul24.004158.10952@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 17