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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 07:33:47 -0500
- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
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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?
-
- Check out what Cygnus did to port the GNU compiler to Solaris 2. If
- the GNU model becomes more widely accepted you'll see more of that
- sort of thing. Also, Cygnus aren't the only ones out there doing this...
- I'm sure there are quite a few more. 'dvitps', a very good dvi->PS
- translator, was written by Stefan Bechtolsheim (sp?) under contract for
- somebody, and his contract included the condition that he would be able
- to release it under the GPL. When an organization needs some software
- for internal use and they are willing to pay to have it written, most
- of the time they aren't interested in marketing it anyway, and could
- probably be convinced to contract for GPL'ed software, especially once
- you make it clear to them that they stand to benefit if others later
- improve the software independently.
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- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- Northampton, MA, USA
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