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From: ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: So let's talk about FSF
Message-ID: <1@elgar.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 04:38:59 GMT
References: <720@proxftl.UUCP> <14061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <756@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
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In article <756@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <14061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu
>> FSF is not going to make the computer business non-existent.  It might
>> make *your* computer business non-existent.  So what?
>
>Not likely.  The diversity of abilities and knowledge needed to
>make our kind of software isn't likely to come together for the
>purpose of creating free software.

It already has:

Gnu Emacs	 	    -- Richard Stallman
Rn, Perl, Patch 	    -- Larry Wall
Gnews			    -- Matthew P.
GnuMake, GCC, GDB, GAS	    -- Cast of many.
[c.s.u archive site]	    -- Lots 'o code.

All of the above are at least as credible as their paid-for
counterparts.  And, at least in the instance of perl, you have a
product who doesn't have a counterpart in the paid-for universe.

>But anyway, even if it did, we'd be moving on to bigger and better
>things.

If I haven't completely misunderstood, you are saying that once a free
product is released, it is immediately outdated (or will be in a short
period of time).

Is GnuEmacs outdated?  Are you still using that worn out Rn, possibly
switch to Gnews... Oh, I forgot that is outdated too, Eh?

Pax,
Keith-- 
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