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From: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: GNUified Linux vs FREE 386BSD
Date: 21 Apr 1993 11:24:09 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: kem@zoyd.NoSubdomain.NoDomain's message of 19 Apr 1993 18:49:18 GMT
In article <1qus7eINNcib@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> kem@zoyd.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Kelly Murray) writes:
provides benefits to EVERYBODY. Everybody includes people who create
Not quite, lots of free code is taken by large corporations, on which they
stick their own copyright and prevent the fixes and enchancements from
being used by anyone else. I have seen this, BSD copyright with "Copyright
1992 HAL corporation, all rights reserver, this code is protected by trade
secrets act" or something like this.
Preventing this is what GPL is all about; it restricts the software from
being restricted. True, some people don't like this, but they do have many
alternatives, so they should have nothing to complain about? If they don't
like paying for other people's work, they can always write their own
compilers with no restrictions?
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Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
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