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Article #74918Re: Is FSF software really free.
From: "J. Eric Townsend"
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 21:16
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 21:16
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In article <MCLAY.91Jan27011004@thud.cme.nist.gov> mclay@cme.nist.gov (Michael Mclay) writes: >[Waaaah, I don't like the "price" of FSF software!] Hey, I'd love to have a NEC SX series, but those capitalist bastards in Japan think they have the right to charge me a bazillion for it. AT&T should cough up the S5R4 source as well, since there's no way I'll ever be able to afford their licensing fees. If you don't like the price, you can buy it somewhere else or pay someone to invent it for you. It's what capitalism is all about, last time I checked. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120 "It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence of content. It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard
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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
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Subject: Re: Is FSF software really free.
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