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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: "Real" people, "Free" software, and "QA"
Message-ID: <5256@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:55:30 GMT
References: <1989Oct26.133749.15831@odi.com>
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From article <1989Oct26.133749.15831@odi.com>, by benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies):
" ...
" Someone raised the point, "but all that QA is just a service. You
" could make a business in the FSF world of fixing all those bugs."
" 
"   a) well, but not for long. Once the bugs were fixed, all your
"   competition would have all of your work for free. ...

Really?  Why not copyright your bug fixes or enhancements?  I can see
that your work might have to carry the copyleft and might have to be
distributed in source form.  I don't know why that would prevent you
from also copyrighting it yourself -- it's your work.

				Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu