phr@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin) (12/24/85)
1. Don't expect an answer from RMS for a few weeks because he is in France til mid January. 2. He addresses most of the points that have been raised here in the GNU Manifesto, distributed with GNU Emacs. Briefly, it says that making a living from programming is not evil. Only making a living by preventing other people from sharing software is evil. There is no problem with accepting salary or commissions to write programs. It also talks about the GNU project and about how he thinks the software industry should work. I am willing to mail copies on request, or if interest warrants I will post it to net.politics (NOT net.emacs). 3. Personal request: Please, move this discussion to net.politics since it it is not about Emacs any more. Also, don't post messages to both groups, because that would make followups from net.politics readers spill back to here.