Re: Spaghetti Publishers want your FAQ!

Tim Freeman (tsf@cs.cmu.edu)
Fri, 14 Jan 94 09:23:14 EST

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mss1@cornell.edu (Michael S. Shappe):
>NOT because I expect either myself or any of my contributors to one
>day try to make money off of their work, but because I want to prevent
>anyone ELSE making money off of THEIR work (and my own).

I have seen expressions of this sentiment many times, but I have yet
to understand it. Why do you want to stop strangers from making money
in a way that does not harm anybody? The only motivations I can guess
for this are covetousness and envy; is this accurate, or is something
else going on?

Tim

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