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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: The real issue...
To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 22:26:03 -0500 (EST)
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> 
>    Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 17:32:18 -0800
>    From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> 
>    This is not dirty pool, this is you deciding that you're unable to
>    play soccer in our arena and so running off to kick the ball in a
>    corner by yourself, screaming "goal!" everytime you manage to get the
>    ball past your imaginary goalkeeper.
> 
> It is in fact dirty pool, because you have decided to keep the soccer
> ball all to yourselves in certain circumstances.  How is this fair?
> And this is precisely what John has stated, that you withold perf
> tools and other similar things which we allow anyone and their
> grandmother to publicly get at.
> 
Nope, just because you have the soccer ball, doesn't mean that you have
the right to the machine that makes it.  Geesh!!!  Do you want to own
me also?  (Yep, I can see it written into the GPL now.)

BTW, if you pay me for them, I'll give'em to you.  Say, they have taken
me 500Hrs to produce.  Since I would be giving up a large part of my
ownership, I will ask for approx $50/Hr for my time.  For $25K you can
have whatever software tools that I have, and that will allow me to invest in
a new Alpha system for the new super-VM system Alpha port for FreeBSD!!!

Then, you can release them for public consumption...  In essence, you will
have employed me to produce them...  I think that could work, what do you
think?

John