Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Boycott apple! Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 21:11:55 GMT References: <8907202252.AA02288@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl> <88@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 15 In-reply-to: mart@ele.tue.nl's message of 24 Jul 89 09:16:47 GMT In article <88@euteal.ele.tue.nl> mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout) writes: I reacted on the exact lines in Stallman's article. In that article he claimed the right to copy any commercial software and give it away. I think in general this is illegal and if it isn't it should be. ----- I think that `copy' in this context means ``produce a replicant,'' e.g., as the Gnu C compiler is to a commerical C compiler. I do not think that it implied that RMS will copy Lotus-1-2-3 and distirbute it. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)