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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:25:38 GMT
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- tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- > OK, so some user will come along and pay me to write new software?
- > But to them, software is just a tool that they use in their business.
- > Isn't it going to be in their interest to ask me to develop for them
- > a proprietary version?
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- Especially since if you develop a proprietary version, you can share your
- development costs amongst thousands of users. Has anyone managed to do this
- with GPL software? I've seen people try and fail.
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- mathew
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