Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

No more than you have to take anything that Microsoft offers you. What 
is the point? If Bill Gates is "predatory" in offering software for sale 
to the public - you pay money to use his stuff - then isn't Richard 
Stallman a "predator" when he makes you pay for his stuff with source 
code? If Bill Gates is out trying to destroy Richard Stallman, isn't 
Richard Stallman out trying to destroy Bill Gates? And who started it 
anyway?

If the FSF is simply making an offer to you that you are free to accept 
or reject, isn't that essentially what Microsoft is doing? You can 
always say "no" and go get Linux or go buy a Sun machine or find some 
other alternative - including not using a computer at all.

MDC

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> If someone (A) deliberately offeres me (B) a chewing gum, and I take it,
> then I am not a predator, am I?
> If this person A says, "I'll give this to you (B) if you promise to give
> your chewing gums away for free", then am I (B) a predator?
> Is A a predator?
> Do I have to take it?
> 



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