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Someone writes:
>	I don't see how you have a company that markets its skills in maintaing
>GNU code since the work they do  would be publically available.

Well, there are a number of companies that are doing that right now. You
seem to forget a few things from a generic company's point of view:

   o It cost a *lot* of money to have employees read news to monitor
     for patches/bugs, to have them retrieve the software and patches
     and then spend a lot of time configuring it and building it and then
     make sure it works. And then you have to add the costs of downloading
     software over modem or an even more expensive TCP/IP network. And then
     repeat this a lot of times a year. During all that time the employee
     could be working on doing the work he/she was employed for. Oh, and I
     forget the time spent on printing the manuals. It all adds up to a
     lot of $$$$$

   o A company that uses Gnu stuff very often want to have support from
     a company that specializes on knowing the GNU stuff so that it won't
     have to spend a lot of hours (expensive hours) doing debugging to
     find bugs in the compilers when they rather would spend those ours
     debugging their own software :-)

/Peter

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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                I'm still bored. Flame me again.