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Article #73729Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?
From: Jacob Gore
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1991 13:59
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1991 13:59
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) / Jul 25, 1991 / > Show me a single > GNU-licensed product that is popular outside of the development community. The Chess game on NeXTs. NeXT took GNU chess, added a pretty NextStep front end to it, and the whole thing is under GPL. At this year's "What's NeXT?" exhibition in Boulder it was one of the top attractions. Emacs is widely used outside the development community, although I don't know if I'd go as far as to say it's popular. For example, many people consider it a great environment in which to write LaTeX papers (and software developers are a very small subset of people who use TeX and LaTeX). Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,566ddbfb9b33042 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-26 13:15:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!nugget.rmNUG.ORG!gore!jacob From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly? Message-ID: <970047@gore.com> Date: 26 Jul 91 13:59:13 GMT References: <9107191647.AA02950@circus.Camex.COM> Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 17