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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <2807665@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 09:05:14 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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It seems to me that rms is entitled to his alternate distribution method 
if he wants it.  It's a reasonably sane method of preventing others from
reselling, for profit, code that was written to be distributed for free.

If you want to make money off software, write it or buy it.  Only a
software "industry" accustomed to glomming freeware into salable product
would seem likely to feel offended by GNU.

In the meantime, here's a chance to make Adam Smith proud.  Write competing
packages that do everything GNU does, and sell them cheap.  Astound your
friends, make the cover of TIME. :-)