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>ts> software is going to be big.  Thus is born GNU-Basic for the 8080.  Soon
>ts> to follow is GNU-DOS for IBM.  These are sold as commercial, supported,
>ts> binary-only software.
>
>ts> 	Ten years later, RMS is worth about $5,000,000,000, and GNUSoft
>ts> dominates the industry.
>
>IMHO, this would not work. One of the reasons that GNU (and some other
>free) software is so good is that all users can get the source code
>and can therefore submit patches, extensions and the like.

It worked for Bill Gates!  In the alternate universe I posted about, the
point was not to write good software.  The point was to first get so much
money that you need double-precision integers on 32-bit machines to keep
track of your wealth.  Then you switch to doing good, free, software.

--Tim Smith