Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Russ Nelson
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 05:36

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In article <3029@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:

   In article <NELSON.92Jan10174852@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
   >The only people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't want
   >their software to remain sharable.

   	Wrong. Some of the code I write is intended to be completely
   sharable, to EVERYONE.

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.

--
--russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
Peace is not the absence of war.  Peace is the presence of a system for
resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary.  War never creates peace.

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Subject: Re: Too Good to be True?
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