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From: ewerlid@kuling.UUCP (Ove Ewerlid)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: ./etc/APPLE.  No Free Software for Mac users.
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Date: 27 Sep 88 05:50:27 GMT
References: <10172@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <8809260004.AA02196@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <10174@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Article 70 of gnu.emacs: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>		.....  Sure it is morally superior to give away what
>I have done, but I don't think I would like to be forced to by law.

I agree, it's morally superior to give away what one has done, especially
if there is an overall yield.

In article <10174@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>     I most probably will.  But the thought of being forced to do so
>by public opinion, law, or your beliefs turns my stomach. ........

The concept of being forced to give away ones creative work is frightening,
if this ever becomes reallity one might as well bail out. (No p-shute please)
This seems to be one of the main points in your arguing. The problem is that
no-one is ACTIVELY trying to enforce such morbid laws. People are simply
moving against something that might force people to give up being creative.