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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: The quality of public domain software and other points
Message-ID: <2659@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 01:48:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.2659
Posted: Thu May  2 01:48:35 1985
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References: <1620@watcgl.UUCP> <259@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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In article <259@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Thanks to all those who sent me the names of their favourite PD programs.
>I was aware of most of them.  The fact remains that quality PD software
>is the exception, and not the rule.  You should all keep this in mind.
>Living on the net creates an artificial impression of what the world is

A secondary and equally important fact is that quality commercial software
is also the exception and not the rule. I include in this everything from
Apple II software to Macintosh software to Unix ports I wouldn't use the
hard disk it is on to frisbee train my dog.

Remember Sturgeons law -- 90% of everything is crap.  For every bad piece
of PD software, I can name a bad piece of commercial software that cost
some poor sucker real money to find out it was useless.

>At least when it comes to intellectual property, he is.  Read even the
>GNU manifesto.  Can you claim that his views are not extreme?  In this
>I claim the word fanatic.

Personal pejoratives on RMS shouldn't be used to attack GNU. The project
and the person are two separate entities. Attacking RMS doesn't lessen the
potentials or problems of GNU, they avoid the issue.
-- 
:From the offices of Pagans for Cthulhu:          Chuq Von Rospach
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Who shall forgive the unrepentant?