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From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee)
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Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 29 Jan 91 19:17:31 GMT
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In article <4607@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>Stallman's comments make it plain that he's not really interested in
>maximizing the reuse of software, as the GNU General Public Virus claims;
>rather, he's using it as a political weapon to further his utopia. Hence,

So, what's your point?

>his software, far from being truly free, will continue carrying the cost of
>buying in to his utopian ideal of stamping out software ownership entirely.
>I find it particularly ironic that he's using the FSF's ownership of its
>software to further his goals.
>

He wrote the software.  He owns it and can do whatevery he wishes with it.
Most others write software to further their own goals too (namely to maximize
their own personal monetary gain).  He just chooses to pursue his own goals.

>This still means that I cannot afford to have any GPV-protected code on my
>computer, since I cannot risk having the source of some of my income tainted

Do you mean that you are using the ownership of your software to further
your own goals?  

>by association with GPV code; whether or not it's infected by the GPV, I
>can't afford the legal representation I'd need to defend my rights in my
>programming. 

Well, that is your right.  You don't have to use his code.

>This is a real shame, as there are good tools that are not
>acceptable only because of the licensing, and it's far more likely that I'll
>be able to reimplement them more easily than I could convince their authors
>(even those not directly associated with the FSF, such as Larry Wall) to
>license their code under non-utopian terms.

That too is your right.

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