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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,misc.legal
Subject: Re: GNU and the issue of support
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Date: 10 Sep 90 13:20:52 GMT
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In article <14926@yunexus.YorkU.CA> shields@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Paul Shields) writes:

| It's time to make laws to invalidate those non-warranties.
| Suggestions as to how such a law should be worded?

  No law needed. The free market system works just fine. There are some
companies which offer source license. The fact that they don't sominate
the market indicates that many people don't want to maintain their own
software. The existance of companies like Cygnus which maintain GNU
software indicates that people are willing to PAY MONEY not to maintain
software even if they can.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.