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From: rgr@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (robert.g.robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: g++ vs. cfront 2.0 in the Real World
Message-ID: <1897@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 16:10:30 GMT
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Reply-To: rgr@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (robert.g.robillard)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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>>...if you compile your program with gcc ... it is still
>>your program, However, if you link in libg++, Copyleft applies, and 
>>you must distrubute source

>It's considerations like this which will continue to limit the utility
>of GNU stuff:

I think you're missing the point--the FSF doesn't want the GNU stuff
to be of use to software hoarders.  The whole copyleft was designed
to make it impossible for the evil commercial software companies to
use the stuff.

Saying that this "limits the utility" of GNU is like saying that the
fact that Boeing can't sell jet fighters to Libya limits the utility
of the fighters.  It may be true, but it's not a bug.
-- 
|  Duke Robillard                                                        |
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