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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Copyleftability
Message-ID: <8281@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:35:02 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Little Shop of Horrors..."
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In article <32334@news.Think.COM> barmar@Think.COM writes:
|anyone who wants my software can have it; in fact, my employer generally
|doesn't mind my giving it away, since the programs I write are unrelated to
|our product line (I write and maintain development utilities used by our
|researchers, but our business is selling Connection Machines and CM
|software).

Yes, but a lot of people aren't in that position, and never will be.

|>Abiding by the copyleft essentially is antithetical to making a living
|>in the USA writing software, except for the chosen few who have been
|>blessed with sugar daddies to pay for them to do just that.
|
|What's the difference between a sugar daddy and an employer?  Who is
|Stallman's "sugar daddy", since he has been making a living writing
|software for years without a full-time employer (except perhaps the FSF,
|which probably can't afford to pay very well).

An employer pays me to do what they want. An SD would pay me to do what
*I* want. Hey, I'd love to have one! Poor choice of words on my part,
I suppose, tho.

The FSF gets donations from individuals, and even from "major
corporations, some in the computer business", according to email from
someone affiliated with them. And if they don't pay well, why should
I work for them?

That's for ME to decide, not you, Stallman, or Big Brother (but that's
another newsgroup...)

-Miles