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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <2851@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 31 Aug 89 23:29:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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In article <37331@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>In article <5369@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>|Besides, don't you know RMS said it's evil to earn big bucks from software?
>Though I detect the ;-) face, it's not quite what rms saids.  He's
>against anyone earning big bucks from the use of force.  This includes
>software hoarding and other abuses of the intellectual property laws.

A difference that makes no difference is no difference.

It should be obvious that RMS is just whistling in the wind; there are
far too many of us out there (myself proudly included) who make money
from software for the situation to ever change.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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