Re: Is FSF software really free.

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From: Graham Toal
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 19:54

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In article <MbdqW0a00WBwEOkXQ8@andrew.cmu.edu> dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes:
>  I don't think there are many people out there who can
>say "buying software from Microsoft puts money into their coffers and
>therefore directly benefits me" other than stockholders and employees.

Oh yes I can ;-)   Since FSF doesn't support these boxes of oozing pus,
the only way I have a chance of getting a compiler that works on them
is to pay Microsoft for their products so that with any luck they will
eventually be able to afford competant programmers who can write
compilers that work :-)
-- 
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From: gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal)
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