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From: roland@LBL-RTSG.ARPA (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Summary of comments on free software
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 21:10:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 21:10:42 1987
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I'm a bit disgusted at the mentality of
Mr. Karp-- that everyone should be a ruthless
capitolist and proud of it.  Hasn't the man ever heard of
generosity?  I happen to feel damn good that I've written
about 1000 lines of C code in Make-- from my head and
Stallman's ideas-- for the benefit of the general computer
community, not to mention most of an almost complete ANSI
standard C library.  He wants me to sell all of this just
because I probably could??  Not to mention that one thing
he said was absolutely positively wrong and very insulting
to me and other people contributing their time and ideas
to GNU and the FSF-- he said that we would probably look
at the Unix source to copy ideas; despite the fact that
95% of the time, this is blantantly illegal, it is also
completely contrary to the wishes of Mr. Stallman.

	Sincerely,
	Roland McGrath	(roland@lbl-rtsg.arpa)

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