Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.) Message-ID: <5591@ficc.uu.net> Date: 8 Aug 89 14:14:07 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article , limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > Bing! When Borland started out, they were charging a *lot* of money > for royalties... I didn't know that, but it still supports my point. Market forces work, and things like the GNU copyleft don't... unless your goal is political change rather than getting the best software out to the most people and still making a living. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"