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- From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.184235.495@lth.se>
- Sender: news@lth.se
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com> <1id6n6INNcn5@agate.berkeley.edu> <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:42:35 GMT
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- In article <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
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- >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.
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- I agree with this. Gcc is the prime example, and Emacs the next-to-prime
- example. In fact, they feed on each other, you need a compiler to
- compile Emacs and an editor to edit the compiler source code :-)
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- But when "users" are involved... No.
-
- Bengt.
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- Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
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