Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?

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From: Ted Dunning
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 1990 14:36

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In article <4305:Apr3004:29:2490@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu writes:

   In article <TED.90Apr29111245@kythera.nmsu.edu> ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
   > on the other hand, the license has already succeeded in its true
   > intent of encouraging source distribution of software.

   The extent of this encouragement has been negligible.

is the freeing of the mach kernel negligible?

how about bash, gawk, bison, flex, sbprolog and many other programs
which have been written and are now covered by copyleft?

i agree that the proportion of all software delivered that is either
covered by some variant of the gpl or which is public domain is still
small, but the amount is growing at least partly due to the efforts of
the free software foundation.

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