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In article <1991Jul25.153055.28579@alphalpha.com>, Kee Hinckley (kh) misses the barn door with his banjo:

kh> You missed that point to.  It's worked well for development tools and
kh> (somewhat less so) for end-user tools aimed at developers.  It has not
kh> worked in one single case for dumb end-user tools.  Show me a single
kh> GNU-licensed product that is popular outside of the development community.

So? The people most likely to take up the GPL are those who have to
deal with the problems of comercial software sans-source rather than
those who faced with a problem can pass it on to one of the first
group. 

Given that most GPL software is spare time work by programmers who
have day jobs or is done by the FSF themselves (who have the explicit
aim of creating a development environment), it is hardly a suprising
that most software distributed under the GPL is designed for use by
programmers.

And, of course, it all depends on your definition of `the development
community'. There are many people around here who are by no means
hackers who use gnuemacs as a text editor. Others use ghostscript to
preview files. Then there is groff.

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