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Re: Copyleft

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From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 00:27
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In article <khtrn7INNa7k@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>This also relates to another posting, where I was responding to why there
>aren't GPLed versions of specialized software.  I said that no one had the
>inclination to write it.  In the current state of the industry, you need

People have certainly had the inclination to write the software.

>someone to start the chain reaction, by supplying the nucleus.  There are
>currently only a few people infected with both the talent and altruism
>necessary to start the processes, so we're dependent on their choices of

Altruism?  Can you make a living writing end-user GPLed software or not? 
I don't believe it, and that statement makes it sound like you don't either.
That would certainly explain why there isn't much in the end-user arena.

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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Copyleft
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Date: 13 Nov 91 00:27:16 GMT
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