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From: henry@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: re: the GNU Manifesto
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 17:25:42 EST
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From: Henry.Kautz

This would be really funny, if it wasn't so pitiful that an obviously
talented guy was wasting his life, rewriting Unix.  Of course
programming is a "job", or a craft, if you prefer, and of course people
should be (must be) paid for their work.  Plenty of things in life are
free or of nominal cost, including being with friends, enjoying nature,
listening to or making music, going to museums, reading books...
Programs aren't free or cheap, but neither are automobiles, or for that
matter, machine tools or cyclotrons.  And the business about people
having no rights to their creations is twisted reasoning that would do
Big Brother proud...
---- Henry Kautz
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