www/philosophy philosophy.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       06/10/29 13:59:51

Modified files:
        philosophy     : philosophy.html 

Log message:
        can't find history page, so include this info from
        1960 here per rms, ticket 262529.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/philosophy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.205&r2=1.206

Patches:
Index: philosophy.html
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@@ -825,6 +825,24 @@
    <li><a href="http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf";>Against 
Intellectual Property</a>, Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies 
(PDF)</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.lulu.com/dcparris/";>Penguin in the Pew</a>, Free 
Software from a Christian perspective.</li>
    <li><a 
href="http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sdexter/copyleft_ethics.html";>A 
Comparative Ethical Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes</a> by Samir 
Chopra and Scott Dexter</li>
+
+   <li>Not available online, but as early as 1960 Bernard Galler wrote a
+   letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM (vol.3, no.4,
+   pp.A12-A13), saying in part (mentioning price, but clearly implying
+   freedom):
+   <blockquote>
+     ... it is clear that what is being
+     charged for is the development of the program, and
+     while I am particularly unhappy that it comes from a
+     university, I believe it is damaging to the whole
+     profession. There isn't a 704 installation that hasn't
+     directly benefited from the free exchange of programs
+     made possible by the distribution facilities of SHARE.
+     If we start to sell our programs, this will set very
+     undesirable precedents.
+   </blockquote>
+   (Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the reference.)</li>
+   
 </ul>
 
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