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Re: Rebuttal to Rebuttal in GNU Manifesto

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From: William A. Turnbow
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 1990 04:28
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In article <970010@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>> What if they just sit back and use your enhancements, without
>> doing any themselves?
>
>Then they lag behind you in product introduction.
------
	No -- if the other company develops non-free products, then not
only do they not lag behind, but they also get profits from the software
they were working on, while the other company spent time & effort in
developing 'free', non-profit software.  To compound matters, the
proprietary company gets the free use of all of 'good' company's
developed freeware.

-wat-

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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
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Subject: Re: Rebuttal to Rebuttal in GNU Manifesto
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