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  3. From: trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
  5. Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
  6. Message-ID: <TRSNYDER.93Jan8131959@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu>
  7. Date: 8 Jan 93 18:19:59 GMT
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  14. In-Reply-To: veloso@husc9.harvard.edu's message of 7 Jan 93 18:41:25 GMT
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  17. In article <1993Jan7.134127.19071@husc3.harvard.edu> veloso@husc9.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso) writes:
  18.  
  19.    After reading through this thread, it seems that there's a
  20.    perspective on the FSF that seems to have been missed...that their
  21.    software distribution policy (copyleft) is a step towards
  22.    domination of the unix utility market. My unix friends tell me that
  23.    most of the base unix utilities are FSF-made (& better than the
  24.    original); GCC, Emacs, YACC, etc. are better at what they do than
  25.    the commercial versions. Even better, they're free.  How, then, can
  26.    a commercial firm compete against well-produced, good quality,
  27.    el-cheapo software? They can't...for long. The implications are,
  28.    well, interesting.
  29.  
  30. Actually, it's worse than that.  They're writing the GNU Herd, a CopyLeft-ed
  31. variation of UNIX. :-)
  32.  
  33. Bob
  34.