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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <2B4F312E.E292@tct.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:10:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.090712.9584@uwasa.fi> <2B4BC9F1.666E@tct.com> <FRIEDMAN.93Jan7055058@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <BASHFORD.93Jan7194947@zippy.scripps.edu>
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- According to bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford):
- >I think there is more likely to be GPL'd programming tools than GPL'd
- >"common user apps" not so much because of lack of "industry acceptence"
- >but because they are less likely to be produced in the first place.
-
- Yes. I think Don's put his finger on it. The Crynwr packet drivers
- show that programs that non-programmers want, can become popular even
- when they are covered by the GPL. It's just that spreadsheets aren't
- as fun to write, and don't generate as much peer approval, as clever
- programming tools.
-
- >Its not the newness or radicalness of the idea, its the smallness
- >of the profits to be had. The GNU Manifesto is up front about the
- >fact that free software is not as profitable as hoarded software.
-
- Yes, yes. This point is worth repeating.
-
- The GPL won't conquer the world in my lifetime. But it might make the
- world a bit friendlier in the meantime.
- --
- 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"
-