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From: rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Stallman's attitude
Message-ID: <1298@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:05:22 GMT
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Organization: Athabasca University
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meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>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.

Justify it?  what for?  He can just do it, period.  No one has to justify
going into business - which is what RMS & FSF have done.  They are
competing on price, and they've set the price @ $0.00.  A free enterprise
system encourages competition and improved efficiency.  It seems to be
working fine.

So meet the competition he has created on price, or beat it on some
other facet (service, functionality, use your imagination).  Software
has become a commodity.  Tough cheese for the people out there who
thought they could get big margins by creating an artificial scarcity.

	Ross