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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Public License
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Date: 4 Aug 89 01:01:33 GMT
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In article <79700023@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
<The first time someone gets sued by GNU for selling a program they
<compiled with G++, or edited with GnuEmacs, or debugged with GDB, I
<think you'll see 90% of all the GNU Software in the U.S. hit the
<trashcan.  

You should talk to NeXT. They had to do strange things to one OS
shipment because they had been using G++ (the strange things were
mentioned here - they shipped binaries, and had the end users build
them). I haven't seen any GNU software hit the trashcan yet...

<Now,
<(1) Can you say, "The existing software works o.k. in a standard way, 
<    and is not unreasonably priced?"

$40,000 plus isn't unreasonbaly priced?

<(2) Can you say "It's a waste of time to reinvent the wheel?"

Unless you don't have a wheel. Which is one of the reasons GNU exists
- to create wheels that everyone can have.

<(3) Can you say, "UNIX isn't *everything*?"

I can; so can RMS. But don't tell most Unix wizards....

	<mike
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