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From: shapircs@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carl S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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Date: 14 Apr 1996 21:45:55 GMT
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Russell Nelson (nelson@ns.crynwr.com) wrote:

(stuff cut out)

: That's because they weren't working cooperatively.  What, pray tell,
: Jordan, prevents you from improving the flaws that you see in Linux,
: to the point where it is as good as FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD or
: 386BSD?

GPL?  Why should I have to give all of my work away for free?

(speaking for myself only)