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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: hoarding thwarted by technicality?
Message-ID: <398@cad.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 18:21:19 EST
Article-I.D.: cad.398
Posted: Sun Dec 22 18:21:19 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 07:52:05 EST
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To RMS:

If I write a book, I have the right to distribute it and reap the profits
(royalties).  If I write a program, why don't I have the right to distribute
it and reap the profits? 

In both cases, I can also limit the distribution.  I can say that if you
don't pay, you don't benefit.  (There are no laws saying free public
libraries must exist.)  It seems to me that you have to either abolish the
rights of *all* producers to benefit from what they produce, or you have to
give up this "making a living from programming is evil" attitude.  I don't
see how you can have both.

							-Dragon
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