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baud@eedsp.gatech.edu (Kurt Baudendistel) writes:
> In article <07yL58w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) w
> >It seems to me that the FSF ... dislikes people selling software ....
> 
> This is incorrect.
[ ...Much beating about the bush deleted... ]
>                         The trick here is that everybody works on a level
> playing field, and eventually, the real cost of software will drop to the
> distribution costs, [...]

Which means that people are no longer able to sell software, only the medium
it is recorded on and the support services it requires.

Hence the FSF is against people selling software, as I originally said.

> >Said people [people who sell software without sources] are targeted not
> >because they harm the FSF in any way, but because the FSF believes itself
> >to be on some sort of moral crusade to force people to make sources
> >available and programs free.
> 
> They are interested in making programs free, but this means ``free from
> restrictions,'' not ``free of cost.'' 

I don't care how you want to define "free".  The statement still stands.


mathew