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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Because you think I misrepresent RMS, it's OK to misrepresent me?
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Date: 13 Dec 89 20:03:02 GMT
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In article <4754@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I didn't say:
>(a) That's his stated goal. (b) That's the implied goal in section 2b of the
>GNU public license.
>
>I'm saying "RMS is leading a movement that is attempting to make people
>unwittingly lose their intellectual property rights, because he believes that
>restricting the use of software to people who have paid for it is evil."

That doesn't mean he wants to make it illegal.  In fact I think it may even be
the same document (or mabie not) that says he want's to change it by
evelution.  He thinks that GNU software will make (tipical) comercial software
unprofitable, NOT illegal.
-- 
           stripes@wam.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
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