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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2005-05-14 14:12:36 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2005-05-14 14:12:36 +0000 |
commit | da0e78ac3695793fa053eda84f99024a0fae71b3 (patch) | |
tree | f68500a73b904232a5ac852d63c66a277bab10cf /etc/GNU | |
parent | 0644322d90f961b2c9c6fb329b939c386dfb22c8 (diff) | |
download | emacs-da0e78ac3695793fa053eda84f99024a0fae71b3.tar.gz |
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@@ -518,23 +518,19 @@ friends or over the net. But it does suggest the wrong idea. (3) Several such companies now exist. - (4) The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from a -distribution service, although it is a charity rather than a company. -If *no one* chooses to obtain copies by ordering from the FSF, it -will be unable to do its work. But this does not mean that proprietary -restrictions are justified to force every user to pay. If a small -fraction of all the users order copies from the FSF, that is sufficient -to keep the FSF afloat. So we ask users to choose to support us in -this way. Have you done your part? - - (5) A group of computer companies recently pooled funds to support -maintenance of the GNU C Compiler. + (4) The Free Software Foundation raisesd most of its funds for 10 +years from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather +than a company. + + (5) A group of computer companies pooled funds around 1991 to +support maintenance of the GNU C Compiler. (6) In the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was to speak of "the issue" of "intellectual property". That term is obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I urge people to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely, lest it -lead others to suppose this is one coherent issue. The way to be +lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent issue. The way to be clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately. -See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.
\ No newline at end of file +See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation +of how this term spreads confusion and bias. |