Re: Free software, proprietary software and Stalin

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:16:29PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Arun" == Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>  Arun> GNU ideology explicitly advocates destroying commercial software. This
>  Arun> is where the hypocrisy comes in.
>         
>         Rubbish. Please quote chapter and verse about where anyone
>  talks about destroying commercial software. You are just
>  displaying your lack of understanding of the arguments that
>  the free software community embraces.

"Why software should not have owners" below:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html

If software can not have owners, commercial software can not exist. In
other words, commercial software gets destroyed. That is a stated goal.