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- From: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.162636.9836@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:26:36 GMT
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- In article <1iqhj2INN639@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
- >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." ..................
- >
- >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.
- >.........................................................
-
- Ahem. What is the incentive for FSF/Cygnus people to write GPL'd software?
-
- Do they get paid? Or do they do it out of the goodness of their hearts
- while being supported by their parents, say?
-
- Just being inquisitive,
-
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