Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dino!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!jes From: jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: reinventing the wheel (was Re: Software Tax: how and why?) Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 89 20:08:15 GMT References: <3674@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <4811@omepd.UUCP> <12439@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: tek@ms.uky.edu's message of 19 Aug 89 14:57:50 GMT > Software development subsidy seems to be an idea that is getting more > and more support. Maybe free software should be like our highways: no one would suggest that they are 'free of cost', but everyone is free to use them as they see fit, as long as it doesn't stop others from doing the same. Society (at some level) assumes the cost of creating/maintaining them since 'freedom of use' is crucial to productivity.