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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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>GNU stuff is *not* free. It costs something other than money, though: it costs
>your freedom to do as you like with your code if you include even a line of
>their code. $150 sure sounds cheap by comparison.

Whether or not you agree with the GNU philosophy, it just doesn't
make sense to sneer at the countless man-hours they have put
into their fine products - and this basically either for altruistic
reasons, devotion to a non self-serving cause, or else for the pure
love of their work.

If you think that this is worse than commercialism, and ought to
be banned from the net, then it looks - at least to me - as though
your value-system is upside down.

-Richard