Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Milt Epstein
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 21:31

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In <00gceB9w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:

>rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) writes:
>> In article <iRNaeB6w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible)
>>    I don't use GNU products unless there is no alternative.  However, I feel
>>    obliged to point out that if people who spend their time writing GNU
>>    software were to spend their time writing free software instead, everyone
>>    could benefit.
>> 
>> OK, I'll bite... If the code avialable from FSF is any indication, I'd
>> say everyone benefits from their efforts.  If their code did not have
>> a GNU copyleft, how would it have helped everyone?
>
>By providing people with useful programs and source code they can use to
>develop other programs.

But it does that now.

It might be different if you had added "which they wish to control and
restrict access to" to the end of your last sentence.

-- 
Milt Epstein
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
epstein@cs.uiuc.edu

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