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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1i8cgeINN8l6@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:55:58 GMT
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- Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish) writes:
- >their use. Pick some 'conventional software companies', do they do
- >this? Does Microsoft have the source for Windows available for ftp at
- >their sites? Is Microsoft perhaps not a conventional software company?
-
- As a programmer, I find Microsoft source code as available to me as FSF
- source code. That is, not at all.
-
- Compare two hypothetical situtations:
-
- Situtation 1: I take a job to write a program for a company. I realize that
- something I need to do has been done in Microsoft Windows. I can't use
- the Windows source, however, because Microsoft has not shown it to me.
-
- Situtation 2: I take a job to write a program for a company. I realize that
- something I need to do has been done in GNU Emacs. I can't use the Emacs
- source, however, because the program I am working on is proprietary.
-
- Looks the same to me.
-
- --Tim Smith
-