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Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1991 17:37
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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?

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Subject: Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?
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