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In article <cPBL618w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) writes:

   > >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.

One thing that separates the so-called GNU ideal from the current
trend is that the GNU ideal makes room for software hoarders.  If you
don't like the way the GNU philosophy works, there is nothing
preventing you from developing proprietary software and distributing
that any way that makes your heart happy.  Whereas current software
hoarding philosophy wants to stop GNU with the barrel of a gun.  I
can't speak for rms but personally I would be happy if everyone
adopted the GNU philosophy but if they don't I wouldn't try to force
them.  So why the sour attitude?  If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
On the otherhand, so far it has been working pretty well.