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In article <1immn8INNgmm@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
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>In article <C0K0qL.HH8@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk
>(Joe Sharkey) writes:
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>> What would it give "users" that shareware/freeware wouldn't?
>Source, and the ability to get support from a third party.

Sorry?  What would it give "users"...?

>> Except for "problems" of course...
>Would you care to elaborate?  What "problems"?

I could say "get a life" - but you seem to post from there :-)

"We" are all knowledgable software people who would have no problem
installing "GNU Wp", "GNU Sheet", "GNU Draw" etc.  *From source*. Any
problems, well we do have source...

Further, I can walk into *any* bookshop and buy books about WP/123/Corel
et al.  I can contact *any* "training/educational" firm for help.

GNU?  *Now*, I cannot.

   - Cygnus: too expensive for day-to-day Oleo support (just a guess...)
   - Russ Nelson: standardised on *one* a while ago.
   - etc etc

>> And they'd need a compiler...
>That doesn't follow.  The GPL doesn't prevent someone from distributing
>binaries.  Indeed, I have an entire system of GPL'd programs, none of
>which I compiled myself; it's called Linux SLS.

And you have some parts of statically linked, some with the "jump-table"
shared libraries... (2 copies of X?) 

Linux looks to be heading for a major hiatus when 1.0 comes out :-(

Again:  What use is Linux to someone who just wants to run spreadsheets
        or Word Processing?

        I say: "None - there's no support."

> mycroft@ai.mit.edu

joe.
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