lawrence@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (David Lawrence) (12/06/88)
A recent posting advertised the distribution of GNU software by a company named ISPI, located in New York. Although this is allowed for by the GNU General Public License, it seems inappropriate to me that a for-profit organization would avail itself of a "free good" (the net) to advertise their services. I feel that this is contrary to the spirit of GNU, and it is most certainly contrary to the raison d'etre of this particular newsgroup. If you want to provide a service and charge for it, it is only fair that you assume all of the costs associated with providing that service, INCLUDING publicity. This newsgroup exists for the FREE interchange of ideas, suggestions and pleas for help, in the GNU philosophy. People should not have to wade through advertisements in order to solve their problems. Please, let's keep advertisements in the paid media, and keep this group in the spirit of GNU. Thanks