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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35675 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1913 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!donau!donau.et.tudelft.nl!bas From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes In-Reply-To: bm@shadow.columbia.edu's message of Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19: 04:30 GMT Message-ID: <BAS.93Apr23093849@carlo.phys.uva.nl> Sender: news@donau.et.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: carlo.phys.uva.nl Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands References: <C5poEp.8Jw@kithrup.com> <C5qCnn.5Kw@sugar.neosoft.com> <D87-MAL.93Apr19230114@byse.nada.kth.se> <1993Apr20.135723.752@rcvie.co.at> <C5wFnJ.KMt@cs.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 14:38:49 GMT Lines: 25 >>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:04:30 GMT, bm@shadow.columbia.edu (Blair >>>>> MacIntyre) said: bm> I don't know how you define free, but I haven't paid money for any GNU bm> software recently. bm> They never said it was public-domain, they said it was free. As in, no bm> money. As in, no money for the source. All you have to do is not bm> charge people for any modifications you make and let them have the bm> original source. Sorry, but you've got it all wrong. Free (as in FSF or free software) refers to freedom, not price. I can charge you $10,000 for modifying one line of code in GNU emacs. In fact, I can sell you a tape with GNU emacs and no modifications for $10,000. What I cannot do is impose certain restrictions on what you do with the modified code. The point is that you have to freedom to do the modification yourself or hire someone else than me to do it for less. Also, you have the freedom to look at what was modified, improve on it and redistribute it yourself. Go read the GPL, please! Bas.