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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
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Subject: Re: distributing gnu - let's think about this
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 13:23:30 EDT
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In article <5373@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> 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!

Consider: someone using GNU on their privately owned machine,
on their own time.

Disclaimer: I do not know if Tektronix has considered making any
official use of GNU.  Unofficially, we have GNU-emacs up and running
on both Vaxen and 6000 series workstations.

Snoopy
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