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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Profiteering at FSF (was: First GNU CD-ROM)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.005510.19598@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:55:09 GMT
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- In article <930120.144723.7b4.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
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- >friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
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- NF:
- >> We believe most businesses can afford the $300
- >> difference and will simply pay it to help fund us. If they're going to be
- >> dishonest about it, how would we know, anyway?
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- M:
- >If I as an individual buy the CD-ROM for $100, and I as an individual then
- >sell it to Mantis for $100, in what way is that "dishonest"?
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- I conjecture that Noah's notion of honesty would require you not to
- undersell the FSF, thereby diverting Mantis' software acquisition
- budget from its proper destination in the Foundation's charitable
- coffers.
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- NF:
- >Your terminology doesn't mesh with the "free" software rhetoric very well.
-
- Oh yes, it does. Read between the lines.
-
- >mathew
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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