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- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Path: sparky!uunet!pdn!tct!chip
- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:13:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.090712.9584@uwasa.fi> <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com> <1id6n6INNcn5@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
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- According to jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck):
- >One might argue that if X were GPL'ed, then more X source would be
- >freely available and that this would assist new ports. But on the
- >down side, there would have been considerably less industrial
- >acceptance of X if it were GPL'ed [...]
-
- Yes. And without the industrial acceptance, the critical mass of
- users driving the new ports might very well never have existed.
-
- I propose that a software system can have either industry acceptance
- or GPL coverage, but not both. I make one exception: software
- development tools. After all, tools are by and large obtained at
- specific programmer request, and programmers love source code.
-
- Are there any counterexamples?
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
-