Re: An attempt (probably in vain)

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1992 00:32

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In article <NEERI.92Jan17101553@iis.ethz.ch> neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes:

   But seriously, could you please give us a picture of how you
   imagine the world when everyone would distribute everything under
   the GPL ? Am I wrong in imagining that programmers would become
   pariahs in our heartless, capitalist world ?

I don't think programmers would be pariahs.  I'm confident of two
things:

First, there would be more, and better quality, software, and it would
be more generally available.

Second, there would be far fewer programmers.

	-mib

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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: An attempt (probably in vain)
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