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  4. From: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
  5. Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
  6. Date: 6 Jan 93 13:21:20 MST
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.132121.13286@hellgate.utah.edu>
  8. Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.society.anarchy
  9. Sender: galt@peruvian.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
  10. Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
  11. References: <2B4854DE.5F42@tct.com> <1993Jan5.090712.9584@uwasa.fi> <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com>
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  14. In article <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
  15. >Were X to have been a GPL product from the beginning, the public
  16. >minded people who do contribute fixes would have continued to do so.
  17. >The only difference would be a loss: commercial products would never
  18. >have been, since GPL programs just don't provide the revenue stream.
  19.  
  20. That isn't necessarily true... Companies that produce hardware would 
  21. still try to make X work better on their systems to increase hardware
  22. sales.
  23.  
  24. But it is true that there would be less commercial products.
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