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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Giving things away (was Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?)
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Date: 3 Sep 89 23:35:11 GMT
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In article <5954@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>Consider this amazing fact. Jay isn't trying to stop anyone from giving
>software away. RMS is trying to stop people from selling software.
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>Amazing, isn't it?

Tell you what: Provide a quote, in context. I could provide you a quote
from the Byte interview which doesn't support your cause. I know RMS has
tried to stop people from selling RMS' software. This seems entirely
reasonable. What a shame that we can't have a nice discussion about this
instead of a long set of shouting matches.

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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.