Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyleftability Summary: make money off your work, not the FSF's! Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 01:46:48 GMT References: <8255@stiatl.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: meo@stiatl.UUCP's message of 18 Dec 89 23:49:12 GMT >>>>> On 18 Dec 89 23:49:12 GMT, meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) said: Miles> Abiding by the copyleft essentially is antithetical to making a living Miles> in the USA writing software, except for the chosen few who have been Miles> blessed with sugar daddies to pay for them to do just that. No... you don't have to use copylefted software to make a living. If you want to use the work those other people (and their sugar daddies) have done to make money yourself, then you're doing something extremely unfair. If you want to write your own stuff, go right ahead. -- Rodney