Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Dave Blake
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>Or does RMs hold the (IMHO ridiculous) position that if someone writes
>a book about GNU Emacs, then the content of that book[*] should[**] be
>given away free?  

Copylefted.

If someone like O'Reilly is printing good documentation books,
it will act to prevent people from writing good free (or at
least copylefted) ones.

This is my understanding of rms' take on documentation manuals.
The dude has ethics.

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Dave Blake
dblake@phy.ucsf.edu

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From: dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake )
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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