On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:50:09AM -0500, David Elliott wrote:
On 2002.02.08 15:03 Brett Glass wrote:
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taxes: It will act in its own interest, not yours. The FSF's sole goal is to destroy commercial software developers, and [...] Give me a break dude. Yes, the FSF wants all software to be free and wants to rid the world of commercial software altogether. [...]
I think it is worth pointing out the the Free Software Foundation does *not* want to rid the world of commercial software. Stallman has, however, stated that he would like to rid the world of *proprietary* software. There is an incredibly important difference. Please do not use the terms interchangably. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html for more information. Plato