Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:33:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh <wotan@Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial software (definitive) Message-ID: <XFMail.980515103333.wotan@Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980514214417.24087B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > If some of you are still questioning yourself, it's good. If not, you > should take a look, just a little peek, about 3 or 4 minutes read, at this > URL. it's the GNU home, which have interesting answers about commercial > software. > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html > > Have a nice day. This has got to be one of the most illogical things I have ever read. To claim that people can exercise no claim of property on the results of their hard labour is absurd. If I write a program it exists because *I* had the ability to write it and *I* saw it's potential usefulness, or because *I* simply wanted to write it. If I choose to sell it for profit that is my business and I am entitled to as much money as a free market is willing to pay for it. If I choose to give it away free, subject to any restrictions I may wish to impose, then that is also my business. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jonathan Fosburgh |We shall not cease from exploration jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, |And the end of all our exploring wotan@scientist.com |Will be to arrive where we started from |And know the place for the first time. www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 | Undergraduate Geophysics |T.S. Eliot, University of Houston |The Four Quartets ******************************************************************************* I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ******************************************************************************* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBNVxgS/x1aCmcyaTdAQGyOwIAuFt8adHIclF3mWUEXA8z+13VWsnvgeo1 TdjA1D2Nunb1dlunGSTWf8ACi9Y2N6Fk11SLfWzJ4XZD0gYxMhDbyA== =bGsU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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