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According to bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford):
>I think there is more likely to be GPL'd programming tools than GPL'd
>"common user apps" not so much because of lack of "industry acceptence"
>but because they are less likely to be produced in the first place.

Yes.  I think Don's put his finger on it.  The Crynwr packet drivers
show that programs that non-programmers want, can become popular even
when they are covered by the GPL.  It's just that spreadsheets aren't
as fun to write, and don't generate as much peer approval, as clever
programming tools.

>Its not the newness or radicalness of the idea, its the smallness
>of the profits to be had.  The GNU Manifesto is up front about the
>fact that free software is not as profitable as hoarded software.

Yes, yes.  This point is worth repeating.

The GPL won't conquer the world in my lifetime.  But it might make the
world a bit friendlier in the meantime.
-- 
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"