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From: mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: The Selling of GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <712@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 01:15:27 EST
Article-I.D.: unmvax.712
Posted: Tue Nov 10 01:15:27 1987
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References: <116@nexus.UUCP> <4787@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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Reply-To: mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
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In-reply-to: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)


In article <4787@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, david@elroy (David Robinson) writes:
~In article <116@nexus.UUCP>, mike@nexus.UUCP (Mike Hickey) writes:
~>     Has anyone read the current (Vol. 5 # 11) issue of UNIX REVIEW? On
~> page 32 a company call "The Austin Code Works" is offering a product
~> in which:
~> 	"KYOTO COMMON LISP and GNU EMACS have been merged into one
~> 	 high performance LISP & C programming tool"
~
~
~This appears to me to be perfectly legal under the GNU General License,
~the ad also states:
~	"...Including all source code $250"
~
~From my non expert reading of the GNU license the comply by giving
~all the source code with the distribution.
~
~If I wanted I could also place an add and sell GNU emacs source
~for $10000 and be in complience, no one in their right mind
~would buy it since you can get it for $100 from FSF but if anyone
~has any money to throw away let me know and I will send you a
~tape for $10000.

There is a technical and important difference.  If you do that, the
recipients of your product can give it to their friends for free.  So,
I ask...any one who as purchased this advertised item, do you want to
share it?  Perhaps a bunch of us could pool our cash and buy it for
all of us?
--
				Michael I. Bushnell
				a/k/a Bach II
				mike@turing.unm.edu
				{ucbvax,gatech}!unmvax!turing!mike
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				Michael I. Bushnell
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				mike@turing.unm.edu
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 UNIFORM sheds TARTAR SAUCE like an 8'' by 10'' GLOSSY..
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