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From: nate@cpocd2.UUCP (Nathan Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <1048@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 16:55:08 GMT
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In article <2377@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>Question: What motivates a programmer to develop a large complex software
>system, perhaps requiring many weeks (or even years) of development effort,
>which is then posted for the world to use, for free?

One way to get an extended answer to this question is to read "The GNU
Manifesto" written by RMS.

A short, partial answer is that one can learn the most, and
debug/enhance a program the fastest by trying to provide it (ie., the
source) to the widest possible audience.

--woodstock
-- 
	   "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?"

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