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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.081203.25955@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:12:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.222424.24191@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
- >
- >The point is, although I consider GNU a Good Thing in general, I wouldn't
- >put any program on my home PC any more that I couldn't get the source to,
- >GNU is weeding out the diversity of the software market.
-
- You did it! You just got the whole point of the FSF by accident.
- Your standards for software have changed thus that you now demand access
- to source code. This seems (according to various accounts and the Manifesto)
- the very thing that RMS hopes to achieve.
-
- And rather than "weeding out diversity", this should just up the ante. People
- write great software *and* the user has the source available.
-
- If the consumer (you for example) demands it, it will happen. Thats what the
- market is all about. ;)
-
- jem.
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