From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals Date: 19 Jul 2010 17:46:25 GMT Message-ID: <8ajhbhF8q1U1@mid.individual.net> References: <4db5e9a2-1d00-4b02-b988-17829a537aab@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <75be3e9a-d145-499b-8f5f-ceb734aaa4eb@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <4c437fcb$0$31260$607ed4bc@cv.net> Reply-To: cfajohnson@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291847640 26641 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:34:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:34:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 23:33:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSa6-0002SX-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:33:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSa5-00087C-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:33:49 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.lisp,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net lCOX3mp8qvsQSGvW53Ib8AqSW7kUwwJoeWQNq8FPkV1g8Tmu4B Cancel-Lock: sha1:O2G2Ph7/Ywh/z8PD9X66O6qEnas= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179848 comp.lang.lisp:290455 comp.emacs:100251 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76135 Archived-At: 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, Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)