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Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 1990 12:43
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> >If there is enough interest, I will repost details of my argument why the
> >provision in the GPL requiring one to make available source code for one's
> >own programs is unenforceable.
> 
> I would guess that there is much a much larger portion of the user
> community that would vote against you posting such information...
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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
Path: athena1!williamt

	Yeah.  Most of us user community types really don't wish to know
anything about the truth.  We wish to be treated like mushrooms --
kept in the dark and fed fertilizer.

-wat-

p.s.-- the above was meant to be sarcasm.  If you have some details about
legalities to relate, feel free.  This is still a free country, last time
I checked.

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Subject: Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?
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