Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!thorin!weiss!barkley From: barkley@weiss.cs.unc.edu (Matthew Barkley) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Summary: talking past each other Message-ID: <9029@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 29 Jul 89 00:01:04 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26695@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Lines: 13 [Much discussion about the GNU Public License between peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) and, among others, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike Meyer)] It strikes me that the two side in this discussion are not talking about quite the same thing. "Using software to make a better product" (Mike) sounds good, but what if (as Peter seems to be saying) software IS the product? And no one has addressed the issue, raised by Peter, of development cost. Matt Barkley barkley@cs.unc.edu Any opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by anyone else, and may not even be my own. How an organization can have an opinion is beyond me.