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Subject: Re: The quality of public domain softwar
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> Anyway, observation shows that maintaining software is boring and not usually
> a desired job.  The best people would rather do their own stuff.  Thus
> RMS's supposition that companies will spring up that charge for GNU support
> is shaky.  In the high-demand market that programming is, would you do this
> if you could do something of your own instead?  Certainly people will do
> things like this, but they will never be first raters.  The first raters
> will be off doing something else.

     System V UNIX certainly demonstrates this fact.

						John Nagle