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In article <1iqervINNcp5@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
>What is my incentive to write new GPL'ed software?  Sure, I can sell support
>for it, but so can other programmers.  

Software written by the government, in the absence of security or any other
restrictions or licenses, is "free."  Usually public-domain, sometimes just
available to U.S. citizens.  (By security, I mean "national security," and
other restrictions, I mean that, for example, just because the gov't does
work on UNIX isn't going to make the code free, unless it is not covered by
the UNIX license.)

Yet the government writes an incredible amount of software each year.

People at the FSF write an incredible amount of software each year.  People
at Cygnus write an incredible amount of software each year.  Other people,
who contribute the code to the PD or the FSF, write an incredible amount
of software each year.

Etc.