[plug] Fwd: [SLUG] Lucky 13 for Linux

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Thu Apr 15 05:51:52 WST 1999


How many times do we have to say "Think free speach, not free beer." You never get
nothing for nothing, this is a point that I believe no one will argue. The fact is
that you are free to do what you like with the software, sell it, print it out and
eat it. The only thing you're not allowed to do is stop others from doing the same
thing.

skribe wrote:

> On 13-Apr-99 Greg Mildenhall wrote:
>
> > I am recieving Austudy while I do my honours project - which is
> > effectively a piece of free software.
>
> So you're being subsidised by my tax dollars?  Hardly free then is it?  Get out
> into the real world, son, before you start trying to ram this socialist nonsense
> down our throats.  Intellectual property rights are not something that can be
> tossed away because you feel it's inconvenient.  Those rights have been earnt by
> the blood, sweat and tears of the coders, writers and artists that own them.
> ---
> skribe <skribe at amber.com.au>
>
> System going down in 5 minutes.



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