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- From: d88-jwa@mavros.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.132930.4247@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <D2150035.mrrnh5@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <1993Jan5.075021.970@shawn.uucp> <1993Jan05.231932.21087@eng.umd.edu> <lkmpp8INN4f4@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:29:30 GMT
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- In <lkmpp8INN4f4@news.bbn.com> mjensen@BBN.COM (Martin Jensen) writes:
-
- >> Why would I pay FSF (or anyone else with the same philosophy)
- >> X thousand dollars to develop software and then have no way
-
- >My company was one of the contributors to the development of GCC for
- >Sun's new OS - Solaris 2.0. We paid $2,000 to Cygnus (who provide
- >support for GNU software) and in turn received a free CD-ROM distribution
-
- >We also paid $1,000 to Intel for an i960 cross-compiler based on GCC.
-
- The problem is that you have to have ONE customer (or a set
- of customers) who is/are willing to pay for the ENTIRE development
- cost, when everyone else will get it for free after that.
-
- This is not good, since it will effectively stop me from
- developing something I see a need for but nobody wants to order
- before it's done.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- "It was, in fact, cool as all get-out. Fortunately it was a little
- too late (historically speaking) to be groovy."
- -- Dennis Pelton
-