From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals
Date: 19 Jul 2010 17:46:25 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ajhbhF8q1U1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4c437fcb$0$31260$607ed4bc@cv.net
On 2010-07-18, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
...
> Right, and this "fascinating" and "amazing" and "awesome" post needs
> only one rejoinder: twenty-four years later all we have is "free as in
> beer" software being milked by proprietary enterprises.
>
> Sadly, they would be more effective and more profitable if RMS had never
> existed, because then they would be paying fair market price for
> significantly better proprietary tools driven by the demands of a
> price/value competitive market.
>
> What we do not have is any interesting amount of "free as in speech"
> software, because no one uses the GPL.
I use nothing but free software, the vast majority of which is
licensed under the GPL.
> The LGPL is Stallman's way of saying, OK, I was wrong.
You obviously don't understand the LGPL.
--
Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
Author:
Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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2010-07-15 22:21 ` Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals bolega
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2010-07-19 15:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-19 17:46 ` Chris F.A. Johnson [this message]
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2010-07-19 18:22 ` David Kastrup
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2010-07-19 19:12 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-17 19:09 ` Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman on Russia TV Emmy Noether
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2010-07-17 19:56 ` David Kastrup
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2010-07-17 23:44 ` Emmy Noether
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2010-07-18 8:23 ` Emmy Noether
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2010-07-18 14:53 ` David Kastrup
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2010-07-18 9:03 ` Andreas Politz
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2010-07-18 10:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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