ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest
Dave Sill
de5 at de5.ctd.ornl.gov
Wed Oct 3 04:03:01 AEST 1990
In article <4140 at lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>OK...so it's not OK to blatantly advertise commercial products, but it's OK to
>blatantly advertise the soi-disant Free Software Foundation's products. I get
>it now.
That's right. In the former case, a comercial entity gains advantage
at the expense of the USENET community. In the latter, everyone
benefits and no profits are made at the expense of others.
>GNU stuff is *not* free. It costs something other than money, though: it costs
>your freedom to do as you like with your code if you include even a line of
>their code. $150 sure sounds cheap by comparison.
Yes, their are restrictions on what you can do with *their*
code--you're free to do whatever you want with your own code--but
isn't that only fair? And there is absolutely no reason why one would
need to include a modified bash in their product, so the fear of it
causing you to give your precious code away is baseless.
--
Dave Sill (de5 at ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support
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