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- From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 17:13:06 -0800
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- In article <1iqervINNcp5@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >What is my incentive to write new GPL'ed software? Sure, I can sell support
- >for it, but so can other programmers.
-
- Software written by the government, in the absence of security or any other
- restrictions or licenses, is "free." Usually public-domain, sometimes just
- available to U.S. citizens. (By security, I mean "national security," and
- other restrictions, I mean that, for example, just because the gov't does
- work on UNIX isn't going to make the code free, unless it is not covered by
- the UNIX license.)
-
- Yet the government writes an incredible amount of software each year.
-
- People at the FSF write an incredible amount of software each year. People
- at Cygnus write an incredible amount of software each year. Other people,
- who contribute the code to the PD or the FSF, write an incredible amount
- of software each year.
-
- Etc.
-
-