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Larry Butler larry_butler at hp.com
Thu Jan 3 16:45:57 MST 2002


That was very nice of him.  I wish I could have been there.  I don't know - 
maybe he thought he was more likely to get money out of a private university.
In any case, I still don't think he's a poor man.

Larry

On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:52 pm, you wrote:
> He spoke once at the Front Range Unix Users Group. I think it cost
> nothing or maybe just a burrito. I can't imagine he got much since FRUUG
> is penniless.
>
> The basic idea that people should be able to modify their software
> and share their work is a good one. But, as Mike pointed out, it's
> not a black&white world. The undefined, misty, murky boundary between
> everything drives us engineering, geek types nuts, doesn't it? :)
>
> 	Quent
>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:41:52AM -0700, Larry Butler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:43 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:36:34PM +0000, Daniel Miles wrote:
> > >
> > > ...   Even RMS charges a lot of
> > > money for consulting.  Also, I believe the GNU CD's cost thousands of
> > > dollars.
> >
> > When I was in the Tulane chapter of ACM.  We tried to get RMS as a guest
> > speaker.  I think it would have cose about $200K.  Needless to say we had
> > a change of plans.
> >
> > I don't think Stallman is a poor man.
> >
> > Larry
>
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