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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend?
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Date: 9 Feb 91 00:08:21 GMT
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In article <8536@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes:

>Obviously the MIT X-Window style copyright is the ideal. But I will take
>the FSF one over the "No commercial Use" kind in all cases.

But the X-Windows system style copyright isn't ideal for everyone --
what about the poor sod who buys a Wizz-Bang X Box that includes X and
no source? He finds a bug, someone on the net provides a source-code
fix, and then he has to wait 6 months for the vendor to ship him a
fixed binary.

Oh yeah, that's ideal.