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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <100920286@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 02:04:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> ...   
>  The example of X Windows shows what would happen without the copyleft.
>  Most users who get X Windows get just a binary.  They can't get the
>  source for the version they are running. ...

To me, this is just further proof of Mr. Stallman's distance from
reality on this issue.  The vast (and I mean VAST) majority of users
don't want the source to X windows.  They want it to run to the spec
and run fast.  As the available implementations become less and less
buggy and faster and faster, the demand for source code--small to begin
with--just diminishes further.

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