Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!clive
From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: general class definitions
Message-ID: <8340@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 06:35:11 GMT
References: <1988Jul25.194637.22208@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: resident visitor
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From article <1988Jul25.194637.22208@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> In article <6590058@hplsla.HP.COM> glenne@hplsla.HP.COM (           Glenn Engel) writes:
>>  ... This will require you to offer for copying
>>  costs, all your source code.  I would like to see this restriction
>>  removed from libg++ so that it indeed will grow and grOW and GROW to
>>  be usable by everyone.
> 
> Don't bet on it.  This is an ideological issue for RMS (and others); he
> wants ALL source to be available for copying costs.  In fact he considers
> any other policy not merely misguided but evil.  I'd be very surprised to
> see any compromises made on this.  Buying into this ideology is the price
> you pay for using the software.  (Betcha thought the stuff was free!)

Which so very effectively means all the FSF software is toy software
only, no matter how good it is.  Even if I personally (or you) might
not like that.

A very good point, about free lunches.  I wonder how many people
realized about this, donating their effort to produce FSF things.

Really, it's all a great disappointment.  It's not sharing at all, I
think.

Clive Steward