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In article <FRIEDMAN.92Jan13064057@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> friedman@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>   You speculate an awful lot for someone who has't got any concrete
>evidence. 
It's very hard to prove a negative.  You can always argue that the
evidence just isn't in yet.  That's popular with the global warming
detractors for instance.  But yes, I've noted a number of times that
time may prove me wrong.

>>I don't know of any commercial software companies which have switched
>>to using the GPL, they've simply avoided using any GPL'd code in their
>>software.  I don't know if the LGPL will change this, I'd be happy to
...
>   Motorola recently announced the availability of a C language tool kit
...
>   To my knowledge, gcc is also used by NeXT and by Commodore for its Amiga
>SVR4 system.  4.4BSD uses gcc as the standard compiler.
>   Cygnus actually maintains a lot of GNU software, including GDB and other
...
>   A group connected with the commercial personal computer network in Japan
>is writing and distributing a hardware design and associated software
...

You've said nothing to contradict my statement.  Now, someone has said
that Cygnus is planning to sell binary distributions.  That I find
very interesting and I look forward to seeing how well it works.
I'd also be very impressed if Cygnus got some competition and both
companies thrived.  All of those things I would see as a positive
indication that the GPL has a possible benefitial future.  I would be
*extremely* impressed if commercial software companies started using GPL,
and if the GPL started being used on end-user software (rather than what
tend to be primarily programmer and technical tools).
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.