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From: bob@aargh.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: The Selling of GNU Emacs
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:47:38 EST
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In article <1808@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes:
>In article <2833@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
>>...
>>Good grief, Stallman and the FSF sell GNU software.
>
>Wrong.  They sell _tapes_ which contain GNU software ... They
>consider the bits themselves to be free, and won't charge you for
>them if you can pick them up in a way that won't cost them
>anything...

Right.  Otherwise, one could say that the telephone company, the
vendors of PC Pursuit services, or whoever you use is selling you GNU
software when you pick it up via semi-anonymous UUCP from osu-cis.
And that the maintainers of the various Internet gateways are selling
it to you when they graciously allow your IP packets to go through
their machines on the way to prep.ai.mit.edu when you FTP it directly
from the source.

I doubt that any of those folks would want to be put in that position,
for any number of reasons, the {\em least} of which is likely the GNU
Copyleft and Manifesto.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
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