Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:13508 comp.sys.misc:1016 comp.sys.ibm.pc:10935 comp.sys.mac:11441 comp.sys.atari.st:7088 alt.flame:1506 misc.legal:3563
Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!sun!plx!slvblc!dick
From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,alt.flame,misc.legal
Subject: GNU/Stallman (was Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Summary: P.T. Barnum proven right again!
Message-ID: <300@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 11:59:33 GMT
References: <19229@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp>
Sender: uupc@slvblc.UUCP
Reply-To: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, CA
Lines: 18
Disclaimer: none

In article <19229@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>RMS (Mr. Stallman) has . . . always required all work that he does
>to be freely redistributable, and takes a copy of the work he performs
>as a consultant with him when he is done with an assingment.
>[...]
>Proof of concept?!?!!!!

It depends on the concept you are trying to prove.  The universal
(non)ownership of all software?  Not hardly.  That one man's success
validates his philosophy?  Wrong again.  That P.T. Barnum was right?
Probably.

Dick
--
Dick Flanagan, W6OLD                        GEnie: FLANAGAN
UUCP: ...!sun!plx!slvblc!dick               Voice: 1 408 336-3481
USPO: PO Box 155, Ben Lomond, CA 95005      LORAN: N37 05.5 W122 05.2
--