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 spooky!witr@uunet.uu.net (Robert W. Withrow) writes:
>>If you give people the freedom to be greedy, greedy they will be.  And
>>that is the road to economic ruin and pain for everyone.
>
>If you *deny* people the freedom to be greedy, greedy they will be.
>And that is the road to economic ruin and pain for everyone.  (Witness
>the USSR).

	This argument does not wash.  People are not being denied the freedom
to be greedy at all.  They are being denied the right to be greedy if they want
to incorporate FSF software into the systems that they package.  If you think
about it this is only fair.  If FSF does all of the hard work of getting
something to work and supporting it, why should a vendor be able to "modify" it
and sell it as proprietary (i.e. distribute only binaries).  If someone wants
to distribute only the binaries to a program, then fine, let them write the
whole thing from scratch.  No one is forcing them to use GNU software.


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