enough! (was Re: Intel+Cygnus+Optimized Compilers)

[Paul Derbyshire]

At 11:13 AM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Just becuase software is sold doesnt make it bad, in the same sense
>that selling cars doesnt make them bad.

Apples and oranges fallacy. Cars are manufactured from building materials
causing a manufacturing cost per unit. Software (distributed
electronically) has no cost per unit.

>*EXPECTING* free software, rather than *APPR#ECIATING* it is a far more
>soul muddying concept.

Expecting free software from something that calls itself the "free software
foundation" would appear to be perfectly reasonable.
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