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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: distributing gnu - let's think about this
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 09:07:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 09:07:29 1986
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Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
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Keywords: distribution
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Summary: 

In article <5373@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> .. would probably object very strongly
>> to paying its phone $$$ to ship free Unix-based software around the
>> world -- I think you can understand why.

	No I don't. DEC pays DECUS, IBM pays SHARE for just
	about the same thing.
>
>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!

	How about all the stuff on the net, on decus tapes, on
	share tapes ??? Here, I am referring to real companies
	submitting loads of stuff, not research organizations or
	universities..
	
	Even if there were a lot of companies with the particular
	outlook you described, [[allow me to re-describe: you get 
	something for free, that triples your productivity, and 
	thus company saves, but when you hack a little into it, it 
	all of a sudden becomes a major issue]
	so what ??? real improvements may not necessarily come
	from them. The point is: this thing is for *everyone*. If
	a company does not wish to use the best emacs available
	for *any* price, that is a (?) choice. Nothing is lost
	for the rest of the computer-folk.

	...	and I shall wait for yet another episode of
		FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION vs. EMPIRE

	oZ
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