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epstein@sunc2.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) writes:
> In <00gceB9w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
> >rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) writes:
> >> 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.

No, because that would be misleading.  It would imply that only those who
wish to restrict access to software and source code are put off by the GPL.


mathew

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