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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
Keywords: technology changes things
Message-ID: <39932@sun.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 88 20:55:00 GMT
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In article <6668@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris (Mike Meyer) writes:
> In article <1950@epiwrl.EPI.COM> parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker) writes:
> 
>>You seem to imply that since they weren't priced individually that they
>>are somehow public domain.  GNU emacs and microemacs are public domain
>>(essentially), but not ed and ex (unless you are talking about different
>>ones than I am).
> 
> No, you implied it. I said they came at no extra charge ("gratis")
> with the OS. You have to have a license for the OS. That license

I bought a BMW K100RT two years ago to commute to work on.  (Rain or
shine, I'd still recommend one.)  I didn't pay extra for pistons,
brakes, or fairing...they weren't "gratis" either.  But at least
they didn't cost extra.) They were part of the package.
 
> Suntools makes Suns more attractive? Giggle. What a laugh. And I don't
> deal with obsolete hardware - unless it's noticably faster than
> anything else I can get my hands on. Things using intel processors
> prior to the '386 are always in the first category, and never in the
> second.

That's nice.  Who pays for the hardware you work on?  At home, at least,
I pays my money and takes my chances.  At work I use what they give me.

	seh