Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: en font terrible
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 11:54

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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
> In article <0cHceB10w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible
>    nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
>    > The only people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't wan
>    > to share their software.
> 
>    False.  Those who want their software to be completely free are also unabl
>    to benefit.
> 
> Okay, let me put it this way:
> 
> The only people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't want
> their software to remain sharable.

That's false too.

The people who don't benefit right now are the people who don't want
to force that all derivative works based on their software remain 
freely-distributable under the GPL.


mathew

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