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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 14:20:29 GMT
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In article <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
> If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
> that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
> benefiting from it.
>Please clarify this. How is anyone else prevented from benefitting
>from it? Say, for example, the same people who now benefit from GCC?
The people who aren't hackers and don't have net access, who want to walk
down to the store and buy a shrinkwrapped copy of GCC with a technical
support number and related articles in PC-Week.
The people who aren't hackers and want to walk down to the store and buy
a shrinkwrapped copy of "386BSD-Lite" with a technical support number and
a bunch of application programs in shrinkwrap on the shelf next to it.
Mundanes are people too.
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Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032