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From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:59:02
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In-reply-to: allard@isi.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 22:05:34 GMT
True, we don't see examples of shrinkwrapped copylefted stuff at
the software houses. Maybe a publisher should give it a try!
Yes, we do. See the ads in BYTE and other places from the Austin
Code Works, for example. Also, Cygnus has discussed doing a retail
version of GCC like this. There are quite a few duplication joints
(floppy and cd-rom) which ship copylefted stuff alongside shareware,
but with no support; maybe that's not what you mean. But there are
plans afoot to do what you describe, now that you can run most progs
on mass-market hardware.