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From: cash@csmil.umich.edu (Howard Cash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: The USENET Mac Programmer's Guide and copyrights
Summary: What kind of use do we want to restrict?
Keywords: Programming Guide, copyright
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Date: 2 Apr 89 18:33:23 GMT
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Can someone explain to me the problem with "commercial exploitation" of
code?  What is the disadvantage that people see in having for-profit
organizations use the same code that academic programmers and hobbiests
use?  Seems to me that everyone profits when "good" software solutions 
become fairly standardized.  From a purely selfish point of view, when
a commercial software house is able to save development costs, those savings 
may be passed on to me as a consumer.

cash@csmil.umich.edu