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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software, development & copyrights
Message-ID: <4488@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 89 22:53:42 GMT
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From article <5401@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):

>... There is a ghenuine need for the products that I speak of. Such
>products as 747s, passenger cars, microwave ovens, and energy management
>systems are necessary. To compete effectively if you manufacture these
>products you need to protect the source to your embedded software. ...

This is less than obvious.  If a manufacturer of microwave ovens
commenced using all the currently available Gnu-programs in
development of their ovens and made their software publicly
available to the extent required by the copylefts, how and
why would they compete less effectively?

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu