Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:26

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In article <1993Jan6.132121.13286@hellgate.utah.edu> galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt) writes:
   In article <2B49ED1A.7405@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
   >Were X to have been a GPL product from the beginning, the public
   >minded people who do contribute fixes would have continued to do so.
   >The only difference would be a loss: commercial products would never
   >have been, since GPL programs just don't provide the revenue stream.

   That isn't necessarily true... Companies that produce hardware would 
   still try to make X work better on their systems to increase hardware
   sales.

Perhaps, or they might have gone with Display PostScript or NeWS or
something even grosser, so they would have gotten software revenue as
well as hardware revenue.

Dale

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