Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 06:13

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According to jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck):
>One might argue that if X were GPL'ed, then more X source would be
>freely available and that this would assist new ports.  But on the
>down side, there would have been considerably less industrial
>acceptance of X if it were GPL'ed [...]

Yes.  And without the industrial acceptance, the critical mass of
users driving the new ports might very well never have existed.

I propose that a software system can have either industry acceptance
or GPL coverage, but not both.  I make one exception: software
development tools.  After all, tools are by and large obtained at
specific programmer request, and programmers love source code.

Are there any counterexamples?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"

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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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