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- From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Organization: Independent Network (UK)
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:11:55 GMT
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- In article <1id6n6INNcn5@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
- >
- >OSF's contributions to gcc ports, NeXT's work on Objective-C).
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- It did take an awful long time for NeXT to "give it away under GPL"
- -- wasn't a lawsuit threatened at one time.
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- Of course, *all* they gave was the gcc changes -- we now await "GNU
- Objective-C".
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- >the GPL, none of these would be available to the community in source form.
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- Maybe, maybe not...
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- Much research work in the US is funded by "Congress", and so public domain.
- From the press, Intel have several Government "supercomputer" contracts, to
- take one example, so maybe the i860 work would have been available anyway?
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- BTW: What is the *original* publication date for the GNU manifesto?
- I remember reading it several years before the "current" date???
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- >Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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- joe.
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