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Indeed.. Right On
Stallmans ideas of free software originated from the time you only had choice between VMS and a couple of UNICES that had astronomical costs..

Don't forget the price of the first PC IBM's and that was a home user toy machine.. not close to the prices they were paying in business environments.

"Stealing" isn't advocated by RMS in any way.
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Well, Dana...  Userama | 08/26/08
troops !?  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
commitee is more like it... not troops.  shryko | 08/27/08
still a military analogy  shis-ka-bob | 08/27/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  btidwell | 08/26/08
Not the same thing  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Maybe not the best example  btidwell | 08/26/08
GPL and Copyright  daengbo | 08/27/08
You are right about the distinction  btidwell | 08/27/08
What I said  daengbo | 08/27/08
open source extremism lives.....  xuniL_z | 08/26/08
It's everywhere  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Yup, Windows extremists too...  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Differences  xuniL_z | 08/28/08
Open source extremism lives AND turns  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
You used to be fun, now you're just boring.  kozmcrae | 08/26/08
Ah, an extremist tells me  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
It's gotta hurt then that...  T1Oracle | 08/28/08
I was under the impression...  AndyCee | 08/27/08
Did you expect party discipline?  John L. Ries | 08/26/08
Good one, John  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Stallman and 'extremists'  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
Indeed.. Right On  TedKraan | 08/27/08
Absolutely agree.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
Thing is, though  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Open source is not a business movement  jimmyed2000 | 08/28/08
Not quite  Someguy2 | 09/03/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  joshuagay | 09/09/08

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