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From: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Making $$$ from software - GNU vs the world
Message-ID: <551@crabcake>
Date: 2 Jan 90 06:27:58 GMT
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Reply-To: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
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In article <33980@mips.mips.COM> kevin@mips.COM (Kevin Kuhn) writes:
>This big ruckus with the aids software that was sent all over the country
>recently was apparently done by somebody with lots of cash.  On the news
>they told the story, and ended with the warning, "So stay away from all
>free software".  
>It just seems that the primary motive behind this is descrediting free
>software...

Another conspiracy theory, though, is the opposite: by having a "license"
which threatens destruction of your other programs if you violate it, and which
otherwise contains many restrictive provisions common to typical software
"licenses" and "warrantees" which disclaim everything, the Aids trojan is
really an attempt to discredit _non_-free software by being an example of
what is wrong with all those restrictive shrinkwrap licensing agreements...
--
"Workers of the world, we're sorry!" --Soviet protestor's slogan

Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
     INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu)