Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 18:08

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johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
 > The FSF-copyrighted programs are in little danger of being taken 
 > "proprietary" by a corporate hoarder -- the best version of emacs is 
 > GNUemacs;  anyone who thinks to make a pile of money from a proprietary 
 > version based on GNU source would be crazy!  How could a company compete 
 > with a free emacs maintained by an army of enthusiastic users with free 
 > access to the GNU version of the source code?

The net is not ubiquitous.  People who have no access wouldn't
know that the program they are buying is free.  A wiley company
could lift public domain code verbatim, hoard and sell it without
anyone being the wiser.  This is the kind of thing the GPL
prevents.

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