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From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: monty's emacs..
Message-ID: <252@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 10:55:10 EST
Article-I.D.: unirot.252
Posted: Thu Dec 19 10:55:10 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Dec-85 04:39:44 EST
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Reply-To: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
Organization: The Soup Kitchen, Piscataway NJ
Lines: 19
Keywords: emacs, PD-software
Summary: Why are companies so afraid of going PD?


Think about it a minute.  If you put a product into the public
domain, that means no one has to pay for that product.  If it
happens to be your product, you don't make any money from it.

How would you like it if someone took something that you had
worked on very hard and was planning to make a living from,
and declared that through some technicality, everyone could
have it and no one had to pay you for it?

You don't have to buy a product if you don't like its price.
But you certainly have no right to take away someone's livelihood.

If you feel differently about this, then I suggest you go to your
employer and tell him that he no longer has to pay you wages for
the code you write for him.

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