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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft
  2. From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
  4. Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
  5. Date: 9 Jan 1993 14:16:08 GMT
  6. Organization: /etc/organization
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  8. Message-ID: <1immn8INNgmm@life.ai.mit.edu>
  9. References: <FRIEDMAN.93Jan7055058@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <BASHFORD.93Jan7194947@zippy.scripps.edu> <C0K0qL.HH8@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk>
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  13. In article <C0K0qL.HH8@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk
  14. (Joe Sharkey) writes:
  15. >
  16. > In article <BASHFORD.93Jan7194947@zippy.scripps.edu>
  17. > bashford@scripps.edu (Don &) writes:
  18. >>
  19. >> But if, say, a good PC word processer were released with a GPL, I
  20. >> suspect it would do well.
  21. >
  22. > What would it give "users" that shareware/freeware wouldn't?
  23.  
  24. Source, and the ability to get support from a third party.
  25.  
  26. > Except for "problems" of course...
  27.  
  28. Would you care to elaborate?  What "problems"?
  29.  
  30. > And they'd need a compiler...
  31.  
  32. That doesn't follow.  The GPL doesn't prevent someone from distributing
  33. binaries.  Indeed, I have an entire system of GPL'd programs, none of
  34. which I compiled myself; it's called Linux SLS.
  35.  
  36. -- 
  37.  \  /   Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
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