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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <2B4DAB3F.8C64@tct.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:26:39 GMT
- References: <1id6n6INNcn5@agate.berkeley.edu> <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com> <FRIEDMAN.93Jan7055058@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- According to friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman):
- >There may be any number of reasons why nobody else [other than the GNU
- >Project] 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.
-
- Given the U.S. legal idea of "fiduciary responsibility", "it could
- work" must be considered to mean "it could generate as much profit as
- the creation and sale of proprietary software." Since there is no
- evidence yet that such profit can be earned, shareholders would roast
- alive any manager who gives away source code to a corporation's cash
- cow application. So if anyone comes out with a GPL'd killer app, it
- won't be a corporation.
- --
- 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"
-