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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: who cares? [Re: Rms says ...]
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.170452.4270@alphalpha.com>
Date: 23 Feb 91 17:04:52 GMT
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In article <1991Feb22.173554.15165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Now, whether or not X would have become popular if it was GPLed has
>NOTHING to do with this line of argument. And that's why I asked
>Nazgul to respond to what I wrote, not what he wanted to argue
>against. There are arguments to be made for making things PD, and I
>know what they are, and I like some of them. However, I don't think
>it's *always* true that those arguments win. Different people have
>different criteria, and you aren't everyone.
That's fine, in fact I said that.  You're quite right, I wasn't responding
directly to what you said, rather making sure that people didn't assume
that you could generalize from that to assume that GPL was always better.