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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
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Subject: Re: Some people won't use GCC
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Date: 6 Jun 89 02:24:36 GMT
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>Making empty, over melodramatic acusations can only fuel a sense
>of public alienation for the GNU project.

I completely agree.  I love GnuEmacs, I have switched my software over
to bison from yacc, etc.  But, I think some of the postings may scare
away those who are not as devoted to GNU as most of us have become.
That definately would be a shame.

The software being free is great, but the copyleft leaves questions
unanswered to those of us who aren't well informed of legal practices.
I won't post my questions because someone has already posted them a
few articles back. (Sorry I can't remember which one right off hand.)

>It sure would be nice to replace those copyleft notices which
>add a good 8K to every file in GNU software with something like
>"Use this code.  Improve this code.  Tell me about it."

Another good point.  Someday, hopefully this will be at the top of
every source file in existance.  Except Apple's :-)

Kevin