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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: GNU story wanted!
Message-ID: <1989Jun28.153202.21814@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: GNU
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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In article <254@isctsse.UUCP> pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Donald Pajerek) writes:
>All of this software is free, since Richard Stallman, the founder of
>the Free Software Foundation, believes that all software should be free.

I think this is wrong; If you read the "COPYING", "MANIFESTO", and "GOAL"
(or names thereabout) files in your GNU directory, you will see that
their goal is to get a "good" operating system up and running so that
we can then dispense with wasting time writing operating systems, and
get on with more productive, different software. I don't believe it says
anywhere anything as encompassing as "all software should be free". After
all, comp. scientists have to make a living, too. And although they do
allow free copying of all their source code, they *do* get lots of donations
of hardware and working grants, from what I've read and heard.
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