Re: Commercial RCS

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From: Thomas Funke
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:41

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In article <1992Oct14.124744.12589@statoil.no> bhso@fou.tr.statoil.no (Bjorn  
Halvor Solberg) writes:
> I just saw an ad for a product called MKS RCS. Has anyone heard of it
> before?  I thought RCS was copylefted under GNU. I don't know if MKS has
> developed their RCS from scratch or what, I have only seen the ad. It
> supposedly has the same functionality as GNU's (W.F. Tichy's) RCS. Does
> anyone know where/what MKS is?
> 

For some years they sell it for PC's and now for OS2 and Unix. I believe  
that's the way to make money from PD/GPL software :-((

BTW: Does FSF have a good lawyer ?

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