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From: newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
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Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
References: <C5wFnJ.KMt@cs.columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <930425471@monty.apana.org.au>
Organization: APANA South Australia - State mail hub
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 17:16:27 +0930
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bm@shadow.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
> Boy people complain about anything. You charge for software, they say
> it's too much. You give it to them free, they complain they can't do
> whatever they damn well please with the source.
Straw-man attack. People are complaining about not being able to do whatever
they damn well please WITH THEIR OWN PROGRAMS.
Nobody is talking about software that has been "given to them for free,"
except, perhaps, for the GNU libraries. But those arguing against the
GPL aren't using GNU code, so that doesn't really enter into the equation.
- mark
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