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Article #74775Re: Is FSF software really free.
From: Marcus Daniels
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 00:02
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 00:02
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What restriction is proving to be unreasonable for business users of GNU products? Is all the squirming for libg++ alone? Is it that vendors wish to distribute, say 'tar' without supplying source code. Or a number of the utilities? A commercial product that wished to incorporate a number of the GNU utilities would seem to be complicated enough that the additional media cost wouldn't seem to be significant. I've been following this newsgroup for some time and I have yet to see any hypocrisy or inappopriateness of the FSF position. From the start RMS has said GNU was as much a social project as a software project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - marcus@eecs.ee.pdx.edu / ....!uunet!tektronix!psueea!eecs!marcus - "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who don't have it"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,86107c5566b0cc75 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-02 21:18:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!marcus From: marcus@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Marcus Daniels) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Is FSF software really free. Message-ID: <1418@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 3 Feb 91 00:02:30 GMT References: <009437b8.d2ba1e20.3685@v6550c.nrl.navy.mil> <25787@adm.brl.mil> <1991Feb2.054055.1891@mercury.cair.du.edu> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Distribution: gnu Lines: 16