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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
> No, once your code has been incorporated into a commercial product,
> *that copy* becomes nonsharable.  It doesn't matter that the public
> domain version is still sharable, someone has made a copy that cannot
> be shared.

So?  I thought the deep economic theory, ;-), behind the GPL was
that because the marginal cost of making a copy of an existing
program is near zero, therefore it's wrong to charge money for
such copies.  And yet here I see a pro-GNU argument based on
the supposed evils of restrictions being placed on a specific
copy of a piece of code which remains unrestricted elsewhere.
This looks contradictory, to me.

Jesse Perry   jesse@franklin.com   uunet!frnkmth!jesse