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In article <9106292205.AA19330@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
>Many software developers would like to take GNU software and insert
>it into proprietary products.
>
>Sometimes they simply demand we let them sell our work, as if they
>were entitled to it.  Or, less blatantly unreasonable, they say our
>work is not "really free"--because it requires them to respect
>freedoms of others which they would rather be free to deny.  (You
>might as well say that a society is not "really free" unless people
>are free to own slaves.)  Of course, the software these people write
>isn't "really free" or free at all, but somehow the same standard
>doesn't apply to them.
>
>These statements are annoying but I doubt they convince very many readers.
>
>Others go about it differently.  Instead of denouncing the FSF 
>distribution terms as an ethical issue, they try to convince people
>that other proprietary software developers (other than the one who is
>speaking) would never use the software on our terms.

And others say this:

We would be much happier if the licence (and the LGPL) made some
explicit reference to people who develop specialized software systems
which are sufficiently specialized that only a handful of copies will
ever exist, and stopped assuming that everyone who writes software
works either for a computer vendor or general purpose software
company.

You have been successful at getting people to fund your efforts.
Others succeed in a different domain, and fully support your work.
However, with your claims that software should be free, and only
support and distribution paid for, you do not appear to support such
work.  Is it not possible for the GNU project to help support
specialized software systems at the same time as people who work for
companies that do this support GNU in developing general purpose
software tools ?  Are those goals truly in conflict ?"


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"When in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town
meeting, to express their opinion on some subject that is vexing the land, that
I think is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever
assembled in the United States." - Thoreau