Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!columbia!read.columbia.edu!kearns
From: kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Paying for FSF
Keywords: FSF GNU
Message-ID: <6423@columbia.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 89 10:42:27 GMT
References: <12867@well.UUCP> <6415@columbia.edu> <582@mipos3.intel.com>
Sender: news@columbia.edu
Reply-To: kearns@cs.columbia.edu
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Lines: 15

>
>By your last sentence, are you saying that you don't think GNU software
>is available at a fair price, now?
>
>
>--woodstock
>

According to the copyleft, one can use gcc and g++ to develop proprietary
products only if one does not use the libraries.  The libg++ library
is good, but proprietary developers must rewrite them instead of 
building on them.

-steve
(kearns@cs.columbia.edu)