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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35410 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1844 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!stroberg!pb From: pb@stroberg.uucp (Pete Bergstrom) Subject: Re: GNUified Linux vs FREE 386BSD In-Reply-To: kem@zoyd.NoSubdomain.NoDomain's message of 19 Apr 1993 18:49:18 GMT Fcc: ~/Sent-news References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Apr17.161516.2794@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.175431.25015@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <1qus7eINNcib@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Organization: Stroberg Hill Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 17:25:17 GMT Message-ID: <C5sLq7.5LI@stroberg.uucp> Lines: 22 This is a frequently-brought-up-stupid-topic, so let's just end it quickly. In article <1qus7eINNcib@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> kem@zoyd.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Kelly Murray) writes: Software that is ``really free'', that is, released without restrictions, provides benefits to EVERYBODY. Everybody includes people who create GNUified software, as well as those who create commercial software. As an aside, because GNUified software releases source code, it is easy to incorporate changes made to really-free programs back into the original code, as copyright does not cover cases where there is substantially no other way to do something, which would cover most bugfix-type changes. The problem is that not all people are willing to make their improvements available unless they're forced to do so by the terms of the original software. This may be true in the case of someone who wants to convert something from your "really free" into proprietary and sell it. Pete