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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? 

Check out what Cygnus did to port the GNU compiler to Solaris 2.  If
the GNU model becomes more widely accepted you'll see more of that
sort of thing.  Also, Cygnus aren't the only ones out there doing this...
I'm sure there are quite a few more.  'dvitps', a very good dvi->PS
translator, was written by Stefan Bechtolsheim (sp?) under contract for
somebody, and his contract included the condition that he would be able
to release it under the GPL.  When an organization needs some software
for internal use and they are willing to pay to have it written, most
of the time they aren't interested in marketing it anyway, and could
probably be convinced to contract for GPL'ed software, especially once
you make it clear to them that they stand to benefit if others later
improve the software independently.
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Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
Northampton, MA, USA