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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Stallman's attitude
Message-ID: <8041@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 22:02:45 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Little Shop of Horrors..."
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In article <4598@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> ned%cad@MCC.COM (Ned Nowotny) writes:
|>BYTE: Do your restrictions apply if people take pieces of your code to
|>produce other things as well?
|>
|>Stallman: ... The reason you should obey is because an upright person
|>when he distributes software encourages other people to share it further.
|
|...
|
|>BYTE: In a sense you are enticing people into this mode of thinking by
|>providing all of these interesting tools that they can use but only if they
|>buy into your philosophy.
|>
|>Stallman: Yes.  You could also see it as using the legal system that
|>software hoarders have set up against them.  I'm using it to protect the
|>public from them.

SO, at least now I have a label. Is this so I know who/what I am,
or is this so that Mr. Stallman THINKS he knows who/what I am, or
is this so that he can convince others of who/what I am? His applying
this label means *absolutely nothing* otherwise, anymore than calling
me a capitalist or communist would.

Why should software be free? Why not hardware? Cars? Telephone calls?
TV? Money? Or anything and everyhting else? Why shouldn't all food be
a labor of love? Are farmers mass murderers for not giving away their
crops because someone out there is hungry?

Mr. Stallman has declared legal war on everyone who writes software
and thinks they should be able to charge for it, but I have yet to
see the justification for this. There may be some - I'm just saying
I haven't seen it.

|Ned Nowotny, MCC CAD Program, Box 200195, Austin, TX  78720  Ph: (512) 338-3715
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