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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy)
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Peter da Silva writes:
#And so would I, as a GNU opponent. The restrictive licensing of the GNU
#copyleft are *not* the only, *nor* the best, way of getting your code out
#to as many people as possible.

Who ever claimed that it was?

# There are people out there who have taken
#free code I have written and put it into commercial programs. I'm proud of
#them as well... for taking a program and putting the time and effort needed
#to make it part of a real product. If I'd have used the GNU copyleft, they
#wouldn't have been able to do that. 

I would call the Next a "real" product, and they use GNU.

#Some people *need* shrink-wrapped turnkey systems... and they
#*do* cost money to produce.

I agree that there are people who need turnkey systems, but I don't
see why they *need* a shrink-wrapped system. Also, you are prefectly
allowed to charge for GNU products, you just can't restrict
distribution of the sources.


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