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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: distributing gnu - let's think about this
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 17:16:23 EDT
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> I agree, since my company (yes, that is the owner of the Death Star
> up there on the organization line) would probably object very strongly
> to paying its phone $$$ to ship free Unix-based software around the
> world -- I think you can understand why.

It's worse that that.  I think that employee of many companies won't
even be allowed to *use* Gnu.  Consider: you are only allowed to use it
if you agree that any changes you make will be generally distributed.
But your employer quite reasonably wants to be able to withhold from
general distribution any work they're paying you for.  Impasse!