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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.024703.18605@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 02:47:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
- >>Software houses such as Lotus and Wordperfect want complete assurance that
- >>their product is secure under the law when it goes out the door. There is
- >>no court record to show what happens when the buyer of a commercial software
- >>product demands source from the author because it was compiled using GCC,
- >>and should fall under the GNU Copyleft.
- >
- >Hmm - I think I've heard that Commodore(-Amiga) uses gcc to compile
- >their **ix OS and Lotus (yep, of the 1-2-3 and lawsuit fame) uses gcc
- >to compile their products. And then there's DG which ships gcc as the
- >native compiler.
-
- Gee! This must explain Commodores fantastic success in the UNIX marketplace!
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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