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Article #72517Re: An attempt (probably in vain)
From: Charles Geyer
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1992 15:15
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1992 15:15
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In article <1992Jan28.185026.1530@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: > You have a rather strange concept of software. Software has features. Which is why it's useless to Real Users. > Some programs have a certain set of features, others have another set. > For instance I use FullWrite Professional on my Mac. The program is > rather buggy, but it has a very nice interface which makes it worthwhile. Real Programs do something and do it right. They don't have Features. > I'm not saying that you can't make money doing GPL'd software, I just > don't see that doing it will have any substantial influence on the > quality of available software. Because it will help Real Users write Real Programs to get some Real Work done. Got that? > Now if you don't give a damn about end-user software, then fine. I do. Fine. Go write yet another useless word processor, and don't put it under the GPL. We don't care. -- Charles Geyer School of Statistics University of Minnesota charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e7ab4faaac0aba9b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-29 07:21:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!charlie From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: An attempt (probably in vain) Message-ID: <1992Jan29.151511.3045@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: 29 Jan 92 15:15:11 GMT Article-I.D.: news2.1992Jan29.151511.3045 References: <1992Jan18.070335.26058@alphalpha.com> <MIB.92Jan21181133@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Jan28.185026.1530@alphalpha.com> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: isles.stat.umn.edu