Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <5524@ficc.uu.net> Date: 4 Aug 89 13:11:42 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 46 In article <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: > I didn't > mean that you had to be rich to distribute things built with > commercial tools, but that you had to be rich to buy them. How much did your computer cost? About $2,000, I'd guess, would be average for a personal computer. Less if you want to get a good one like an Amiga instead of an IBM clone. But still, if you can afford that, you can afford a few hundred dollars for a good C compiler, or a hundred or so for a Modula compiler. If you want to run GNUCC, your computer is going to cost a lot more. You can buy a lot of commercial software with the difference, and expect to get help when something goes wrong. > In which case, they obviously have no problems whatsoever with the GNU > copyleft. RMS doesn't choose to produce tools for these machines. That > means they lose an option available to others. You think RMS should be > forced to write for those people also? No, but he shouldn't use leftist arguments about how it's cheaper to use GNU-cc than buy commercial software if he's not going to. And neither should you. > We keep going away from the central point, > which is that there are _lots_ of ways to make money off of copylefted > works. Unless you choose to talk about that point, I'm going to drop > the thread too. I don't choose to talk about that point. It's irrelevant. I can make a living digging ditches and come home and program, too, but that's also irrelevant. > Final comment: you seem to care an awful lot about the licensing > restrictions on software you don't use. Because I consider RMS' goals to be evil and rude, and unless someone stands up and says so lots of people, like you, are going to go along with him. The idea of living in the world RMS is trying to make frankly scares me. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"