Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: M O'Neill
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:19:11 +0100, Jason Clifford
<jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <3614FF1F.7582@nospam.nospam>, No Spam <nospam@nospam.nospam>
>writes
>>To quote from it: "When we speak of free software, we are referring
>>to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to
>>make sure that you have the freedom to distribute
>>copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish),
>>that you recieve source code or can get it if you want it, that you
>>can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs;
>>and that you know you can do these things.
>
>The license specifically states that one may charge for the service of
>copying and distributing the software which is different from selling
>the software!
>-- 
>Jason Clifford

it's a difference without a distinction.  try selling the software
without distributing it?  That would be like buying stock from a
broker who holds it for you in street form.  Congratulations, you've
now bought version 5.4.333aaa.-2~1 of somethingware, and we'll just
hold it here for you.

There is no difference between the sale of software and the delivery
(i.e. distribution) of it.

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From: darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/11
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