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entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
> There is a very good reason to put things under the GNU public license, take 
> look at the header files in Ultrix, then download the BSD source from uunet.
> DEC took something Berkeley gave away for free and then restricted it.

So why the hell did you buy DEC stuff then?  If DEC took something unfairly
and restricted it, surely the appropriate response is to tell DEC to go
to hell, NOT to try and force DEC to do things the way you think they ought
to be done.

> mind giving code away. I do object when people demand that they be allowed to
> make money off it by adding a couple of characters, if I intended for the cod
> to be restricted I would have restricted it and kept the money for myself! 

What have such people taken away from you?  If you'd wanted money you wouldn't
have made the software free.

Oh, I get it.  You decided to give the software away and tell people they
could only use it if they agreed with you about the best way to fund software
development.  Boy, I bet that'll convince them.


mathew

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