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In article epstein@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
}In <00gceB9w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
}>rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) writes:
}>>    software were to spend their time writing free software instead, everyone
}>> 
}>> 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.


No - his statement is entirely correct based on the previous discussion.
The GNU copyleft currently benefits ONLY those people who want to write
totally sharable code. It does not benefit those who wish to write and
sell code without giving out the sources. The key word in his first
statement is everyone. Clearly there are people who do not benefit from 
the current GNU copyleft.
  As to wheather ANY Liscencing agreement can be beneficial to everyone, 
I seriously doubt it - but that is just my opinion.

			Bruce
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-How long must we fight? How long        Courtesy of Bruce Varney
 until we can live in peace.             asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu 
-Until the madmen are dead my son,      
 Or until they realize that they cannot count on us to do nothing