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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 13:51:31 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>Having been involved with these sorts of things for a long time, it very
>easy to get burnt out and see very good projects such as FreeBSD,
>NetBSD,  XFree86, Linux, etc... die because the folks that do them get
>tired of working for nothing and/or lack of resources when one person
>can no longer provide the necessary resources for the project to
>continue.

Then why don't the folks doing them make them shareware instead of
freeware or GPLware?

--Tim Smith