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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- In-Reply-To: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 3 Jan 1993 20: 51:24 GMT
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- Summary: some prefer non-GNUholic software.
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:52:30 GMT
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- Mike Coughlin writes:
-
- ... The source to a computer program
- cannot be placed in the public domain for the benefit of humanity.
-
- Sure it can be, has been for decades, thanks to American taxpayers and
- their laws, and hopefully it will continue. As an aside, it is worth
- noting that majority of humanity's throughput is in the public domain,
- and the collection just increases every passing year.
-
- ... Anyone
- may take the source, change it and then copyright it in his own name
- for his own benefit.
-
-
- Yes, indeed. In fact, within the next month or two, I will publish a
- public domain scheme interpreter, with exactly and *especially* that
- advice: everybody should take it, hack it, improve it, copyright it,
- hoard it, claim their own, avoid all acknowledgements to me and another
- commercial company which has contributed considerable development time,
- and use it, sell it, or do whatever their freedoms with public domain
- material allows them to do. If it is useful, if it solves their problems,
- saves development time and further helps Scheme replace other "common"
- languages, then I have ccomplished my goals. The original and its
- further releases [with whatever contributions] will forever remain
- in the public domain [yep, I can deal with any possible silliness,
- legal or otherwise] no matter what.
-
- ... oz
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