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From: clyde@hitech.ht.oz (Clyde Smith-Stubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ pricing for AT&T Release 2.0, and 386 binaries
Message-ID: <278@hitech.ht.oz>
Date: 18 Jul 89 11:44:27 GMT
References: <110001@gore.com>
Organization: HI-TECH Software, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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From article <110001@gore.com>, by jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore):
> / comp.lang.c++ / mike@hcr.UUCP (Mike Tilson) / Jul 11, 1989 /
>> If [cost of software] goes exactly to zero, then the expected commercial
>> R&D investment in creation of new software products will go to zero
>> as well. ...
>>	[deletions]
>> We'll only get a return on our investment if we can charge a fee
>> based on the use (e.g. number of copies, number of users, etc.) of
>> our software.
> 
> Might it be that your R&D costs are much higher than they have to be
> because you do not use existing Free (as in "unchained" -- I wish the word
> wasn't overloaded in English) software?

Where do you get Free (as in "unchained") worthwhile software? FSF software
is most certainly not "unchained". As I read the General Public Licence
if I incorporate anything covered by it I may not make a profit by
selling that new product. True "Public Domain" software (as in where
the author has relinquished the copyright) is rare - or maybe I don't know
where to look? Can anyone enlighten me?

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