Z:gnu-www-ja-x--07b7af-Computer companies normally di/en

Computer companies normally distribute proprietary software. They wanted free software developers to donate their work for such use. If they had asked for this directly, people would have laughed. But the X Consortium, fronting for them, could present this request as an unselfish one. &ldquo;Join us in donating our work to proprietary software developers,&rdquo; they said, suggesting that this is a noble form of self-sacrifice. &ldquo;Join us in achieving popularity,&rdquo; they said, suggesting that it was not even a sacrifice.