Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:05:55 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, miker@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL Message-ID: <199607142205.SAA05369@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607140437.WAA13056@rocky.mt.sri.com> (message from Nate Williams on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:37:44 -0600 (MDT))
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 'packaging' of the code, and not the code itself. In effect, > programmers become 'publishers', since the time and effort we > spend coding isn't worth any monetary value unless it's done for > the sake of 'maintenance'. Once the code is written, the code has I'd say a point which should be brought out is, although not being disjoint or in contradition with your statement, in contrast with it, and is this: (69 shift/reduce conflicts) Even rms himself has made commercial products. If the product needs to be built, people are willing to pay for it to be built. The only difference is that the product is then free, and other people can also get the same benefits. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199607142205.SAA05369>