Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A killer problem in Oregon C++
Message-ID: <1988Oct14.172532.2385@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <151@sunquest.UUCP> <854@cps3xx.UUCP> <7443@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 88 17:25:32 GMT

In article <7443@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> adtaiwo@royal.mit.edu (Ademola O. Taiwo) writes:
>Why would anyone honestly want to get out of copy[->right|<-left].
>The one overriding reason I can think of is so that you can benefit
>from others' work without due credit to the owners of these rights, or
>even STEAL from the products of their sweat.

This depends on your definition of "steal".  Not everyone agrees that
Stallman's redistribution rules are a Good Thing.  Nobody would object
to giving GNU credit for its work, but there are people who would sort
of like to be able to use it without wholeheartedly embracing the Cult
Of Free Software.  (If you are a True Believer, of course, such people
are evil greedheads trying to shaft the poor users.)

Please keep the jihad out of comp.lang.c++.
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