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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.175325.18965@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Date: 3 Jan 93 17:53:24 EST
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- In article <C0Asur.B1E@mtholyoke.edu>
- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan3.054314.18948@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- MZ:
- >>Here our intuitions diverge. If your argument is correct, I see the
- >>price differential as a way of offering a $300 reward for lying.
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- JB:
- >They do not have to "lie". An employee can purchase the disk at
- >individual prices, and since the GNU license allows her to redistribute
- >the software she can then install it on company computers. Since there
- >is no "acceptance of distribution" (or "recipient") license, no "lying"
- >is involved.
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- Obviously our standards of honesty differ. If I were to give my
- employee $100, and send her down the street to the FSF office with an
- instruction to purchase a CD-ROM, and subsequently to install the
- program on my machines, I would judge my request as doubly dishonest.
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- >--
- >Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- >Northampton, MA, USA
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- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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