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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 7 Jan 93 05:50:58
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
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- In-reply-to: chip@tct.com's message of 7 Jan 93 06:13:04 GMT
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- In article <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- >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.
-
- You may be right, but no one knows for certain yet. The GNU Project hasn't
- produced much except development tools and unix-replacing utilities which
- by and large are only used by people who like those sorts of things. :-)
- That's already got us too occupied to do much else.
-
- There may be any number of reasons why nobody else has developed any GPL'ed
- "applications" yet. A large part of it, in my speculative opinion, is that
- it's a fairly new idea and most companies don't yet accept that it could
- work. Very few radical ideas have met with overwhelming approval at their
- introduction.
-
- We'll see if Oleo takes off when it gets into better shape.
-