Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:3148 gnu.misc.discuss:17 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <8813@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 27 Jul 89 00:00:56 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26609@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5271@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 18 In article <5271@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >[I want to be able to sell software.] >[If you can't prevent people from copying, you can't recoup your investment] >[If you operate w/in the GNU copyelft, you may be at a competitive > disadvantage] As in any business, you should use the best tools. If using GNU software on some project puts you at a disadvantage, then don't use it for that project. If the GNU runtime library cost $10,000 and had exactly the same conditions, then you might not be complaining. Instead, you would be buying some cheaper piece of code and abiding by somebody else's terms. You still have that option! ;-D on ( Pass me the dotted line, please ) Pardo -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo