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Article #72662Copyleft benefits users, not just programmers.
From: John Gilmore
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 07:58
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 07:58
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asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) wrote:
> The GNU copyleft currently benefits ONLY those people who want to write
> totally sharable code.
It also benefits people who simply run programs and don't even know how
to program. This is because the programs which they run have been
ported and debugged in a much wider variety of systems and environments.
Emacs is an excellent example of this. Secretaries all over the world
use Emacs, and their skills are portable to many other companies or
universities, running any kind of terminals and any kind of computers.
We had no trouble finding a great office manager who already knew Emacs.
--
John Gilmore {sun,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com gnu@cygnus.com
"It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people
are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e71af1b1f401c58d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-17 00:46:28 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Copyleft benefits users, not just programmers. Message-ID: <24724@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 17 Jan 92 07:58:50 GMT References: <30871@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto Lines: 16