🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jul26.173700.11182@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <1991Jul25.153055.28579@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>>Show me a single
>>GNU-licensed product that is popular outside of the development community.
>
>I can show you two:  perl and rn.
>
>Yep:  Larry Wall put those under copyleft.  But people seem to be using them
>anyway, don't they?

Perl at least, and I suspect rn as well, are both available under another
license as well.  However that's minor.  More to the point; *perl* is
popular outside of the development community?  Popular among brokers on
Wall Street and secretaries everywhere?!  :-)

Seriously though.  To get to the general public you need a general
distribution mechanism that is available to the non-technical businesses.
That means something other than FTP or UUCP, since most of them don't
have that.  Is there any company currently distributing FSF binaries
for those people?  I'm seriously curious, because if there is that
would imply that there are people who think it's possible to make
a living with GPL software, so maybe there is potential outside of
the development community.

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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.