Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <1606@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:11:14 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5524@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In article <5524@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: | > 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. Although I disagree with RMS, and have said so in the past, I don't think his ideas are so much *evil* as impractical. The idea of some rich bunch of programmers dispensing software as a bounty is interesting, but in the long term the people who will keep writing and supporting software are being paid for it. I obviously like the idea of free software, and I've posted and otherwise made a reasonable quantity available, back to the CP/M days. What I don't like is the idea that having done so I have any moral high ground from which I can force people to give their creations away. In fact I couldn't afford to have a computer of my own if I didn't sell some software now and then. I will leave the question of "rude" alone, with regard to the goals and the person. bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me