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- From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- In-Reply-To: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu's message of 6 Jan 93 20:21:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.132121.13286@hellgate.utah.edu> galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt) writes:
- In article <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- >Were X to have been a GPL product from the beginning, the public
- >minded people who do contribute fixes would have continued to do so.
- >The only difference would be a loss: commercial products would never
- >have been, since GPL programs just don't provide the revenue stream.
-
- That isn't necessarily true... Companies that produce hardware would
- still try to make X work better on their systems to increase hardware
- sales.
-
- Perhaps, or they might have gone with Display PostScript or NeWS or
- something even grosser, so they would have gotten software revenue as
- well as hardware revenue.
-
- Dale
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